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FOOTSTEPS 

OF 

TRUTH 



BY 

I. M. MORRIS 



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FIFTH AVENUE 

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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Preface 5 

Introduction — The Footprints of Truth is Divine 

Effort 7 

CHAPTER 

I. Home Sustains this Effort 9 

II. Schools are its Friends 18 

III. Principle is its Support 25 

IV. Loyalty to Truth can only Elevate a race. 34 
V. A Hostile Agent to Truth is the Partizan 

Press 40 

VI. The Teaching of the Nazarene will Produce 

Reform 48 

VII. The Want of this Reform, in a National 
Sense, the Work of an Appreciated Cur- 
rency 56 

VIII. Legislation against the Producers of 

Wealth 68 

IX. Law gives Money a Commercial Value 78 

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4 Contents. 

CHAPTER PAGE 

X. The Control of the Monetary System makes 

the Controller a Master 84 

XI. The Demonetization of Silver gave Control 

to the Money 93 

XII. This Demonetization gave Foreign Interest 

Control over American Prosperity 102 

XIII. The Credit-Strengthening Act the Work 

of Foreign Influence 108 

XIV. The Effect of this Act 117 




I. M. MORRIS. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. 



Mr. L M. Morris, the author of FOOT- 
STEPS OF TRUTH, was born June 25 y i8j2, 
in Greene County, Pennsylvania. 

At the age of thirteen he emigrated with his 
father to Hancock County, Illinois, zvhich State 
was then but little developed, and tke almost 
boundless west was wasting for the hand of art. 
Here he imbibed the spirit of enterprise and 
grew up to manhood allied to the thought of 
freedom. At that time the dark cloud of 
slavery overhung some of the fair portion of 
our Republic, and the fleeing bondsman needed 
guidance a?td aid to the North Star of freedom. 
Our author, deploring the unfortunate condition 
of the black man, became a conductor on the 
" underground railroad," and lent his influence 
and aid to the fleeijig bondmen of the South. 
But now that dark blot on our national char- 
acter is gone. 

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6 Biographical Note. 

He who labored to rob the slave-owner of his 
property in man, lias been a resident of the 
South, enjoyed the hospitality of Southern men 
and been tJirilled by the warm-hearted friendship 
that characterizes the Southern people. 

THE PUBLISHERS. 






INTRODUCTION. 

THE FOOTPRINTS OF TRUTH IS DIVINE 
EFFORT. 

Progression is a law of the universe that 
marks every object in God's wide empire. 
When this law is carried out, there must be 
harmony in every field of action and a fulfil- 
ment of Divine designs that bring happiness 
to immortal natures and beauty and order to 
material surroundings. Violate this law, and 
you wreck the immortality of spiritual beings 
and convert the universe into a scene of chaos 
and woe. God, as the Infinite Central Point 
of perfection, looking out over the possible 
infinite field of organization, spoke the word of 
progress, and the slumbering unorganized ele- 
ments began the rounds of advancement to 
perfect a home for the mysterious soul. Roll- 
ing ages kept this law in action, working out 
the problem of perfection until the point was 
reached in Infinite action, when Divinity 
breathed into senseless clay the spiritual germ 
of immortality. 

Standing at this epoch in human history, we 
trace the beginning and development of a 

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8 Introduction. 

nature running parallel in future existence 
with a God, and starting it on through un- 
numbered ages towards the object of its crea- 
tion. 

Then began the development of a spiritual 
and intellectual life that characterizes the 
offspring of an Infinite God. It would have 
been well for our race had this impulse con- 
tinued to govern the children of men. But 
the sad story must be told that this ruling 
element in immortality was set aside ; and the 
author is compelled in Footsteps of Truth to 
pen the woes that afflict our cities, our homes, 
and our nation. In attempting to teach the 
means of a return to this law of progress, I 
would not be bounded by the narrow limits of 
selfishness; but on the broad platform of a 
common humanity would hail the dawning of 
a day that will give exact, justice to all and 
special privileges to none. In the discussion 
of subjects that involve the much-admired and 
preconceived notions of churches or political 
parties or organizations of men, I will treat 
them in a spirit of candor ; and here offer this 
as a prelude, that I am a friend to no church 
or political party or organization of men that 
is not friendly to my home, to my country, and 
to mankind. 

I. M. Morris. 



FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH. 



CHAPTER I. 

HOME SUSTAINS THIS EFFORT. 

HAVING briefly referred to this Divine 
enacted law for the control of intelligence, and 
the violation of this law on the part of the 
subject, thereby disorganizing the relations of 
the creature to the social compact and also to 
the Creator, we now, to right this violation of 
law, must approach the true base of society to 
find what will bring a race back to its allegi- 
ance under the standard of divine constitu- 
tional law. We need not say that we refer to 
Home as the foundation of human society. 
Here, in these abodes of men, we will tell you 
what are their social standings, by visiting the 
hearthstones and ascertaining the doctrines 
taught and the feelings manifested in these 
homes. 

In the cultivation of vegetable life a proper 

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io Footsteps of Truth. 

amount of well-directed labor, aided by the 
laws of the material method, will repay the 
husbandman for his toil. So, in the homes of 
immortal life, at the hearth-stones where youth 
must find the impress of older minds, there 
intellectual, social, and moral cultivation are 
produced that must tell on the destiny of 
mankind. A ruling power that controls the 
rising generation of men will give character to 
a people where this power holds sway over 
youthful immortality. 

It is said, and said truthfully, " that as the 
twig is bent the tree inclines." Knowing this 
truism, we would appeal to the older inmates 
of home to lay the foundation of an education 
for the youth of our land that will truly make 
them pillars of good society and the heaven- 
acknowledged agents of progressive rule. To 
the home-loving occupants of our country we 
will say that the neglect of education in other 
homes will in a measure eclipse the sun of 
truth in your home and darken your land with 
the raven wings of despair and woe. Do not 
try to discard the brotherhood of man because 
your home is all bright with joy, for the fact 
must be acknowledged that you must be your 
brother's keeper. Back in the early history of 
our race the fact was demonstrated that un- 
divided action must respond to the claims of 
humanity, and the murderer's hand should 
have guarded the victim of his hate. u Am I 
my brother's keeper?" came from the guilty 
Cain when his brother's blood told of the 



Home Sustains this Effort. n 

wrongs that humanity had suffered. Do not 
follow, by your indifference to human right, 
the example of earth's first murderer when the 
wail of despair goes up from other homes in our 
land demanding your attentivenes and assis- 
tance. 

It is a fact that the religion of the Nazarene 
cannot be confined within the narrow limits of 
self. Along the line of human suffering, in 
consequence of men forgetting, or refusing to 
recognize, the relations that should bind them 
to a common kind. In your homes of plenty, 
unmindful of the forms of poverty and woe 
struggling for a mere existence, you must re- 
member that your formal prayers and a silver- 
shod religion will avail you nothing in the 
presence of a common Father and benevolent 
God. If you go to church, turning a cold and 
selfish attention to the wails of despair that 
come up from the dark sinks of society, your 
worship will be a hollow mockery. Let every 
worshiper in our land, bowing at the shrine 
of Christian devotion, ask himself the question : 
" Am I doing unto others as I would have 
others do unto me?" If he cannot give an 
affirmative answer to this question, his worship 
is of little avail to himself. The men and 
women that violate this golden rule of a Chris- 
tian life in the sanctuary where the rights of 
a common humanity are recognized assume 
authority over the Founder of Christianity, 
and proclaim by their actions that they do not 
recognize a common kindred and a common 



12 Footsteps of Truth. 

God. Let every individual of our race take this 
position, and he has set aside the necessity of 
churches; he has converted every intelligent 
being into a demon of woe, and has made the 
unbounded love of God a useless offering to the 
race. 

Devoted reformers and enthusiastic disciples 
of the Christian system in your homes and in 
the churches of Christendom, you must go be- 
yond your homes and your churches to give 
the hand of aid to the needy and suffering, to 
elevate the down-trodden, and set aside the 
woes that are found beyond luxurious homes 
and palatial churches. He who gave you the 
Golden Rule went not to the elevated of earth, 
but to the lowly fisherman, to the forlorn beggar, 
and to the needy and suffering, to relieve their 
temporal and spiritual sorrows and shed the 
tear of sympathy in homes where no Phari- 
saical hypocrisy would go. If you wish to 
imitate this Reformer, go to the lowest strata 
of human society to find labor in the field of 
reform. The elevation of human kind must 
begin at the base of society and in the needy 
homes of the land. 

The character of home aids in giving char- 
acter to the society of which the home must 
be a part. Well-governed and well-protected 
homes shed a halo of glorious light around the 
hearth-stone and reach out over the social field, 
giving peace and contentment to the weary, 
wandering sons of men. He who recognizes 
and practises the teachings of a true home is a 



Home Sustains this Effort. 13 

power in the world that moves on the changes 
that must better society and right the wrongs 
of the age. 

It is impossible for the teachings of a true 
home to coincide with the will of a selfish and 
biased mind. Wherever you find a home 
pinched by poverty, darkened by moral and 
spiritual night, or shackled by the fearful effects 
of crime, there the truly sympathetic inmate of 
a heaven-sanctioned home goes with acts of 
kindness, with words of cheer, and with advice 
that may better the condition of the unhappy 
inmates ; and he sheds the same halo of glory 
there that illuminates his own happy home. If 
you would know the feelings of a true reformer, 
go to the weeping Son of God, standing at the 
tomb of Lazarus and mingling His tears with 
the tears of Mary and Martha for the loss of a 
brother. But you may say that the Nazarene 
was bound to this afflicted home by the endear- 
ing ties of time and association. If such be 
your excuse, then turn again to this generous 
Reformer as he weeps over doomed Jerusalem, 
where lived the enemies of his religion and the 
advocates of a selfish religious philosophy. 
Here He saw homes darkened by opposition to 
a true system of religion, here He saw malig- 
nant foes thirsting for innocent blood, here He 
saw determined hate spurning the promptings 
of love ; but the yearning of His heart was for 
the salvation of the city. This was unbiased 
love ; this was an act true to the Golden 
Rule ; and, if imitated, will lead the reformers 



14 Footsteps of Truth. 

of our age to deeds worthy of a generous 
heart. 

Look around you in these closing years of 
the nineteenth century, and how many moral 
plague-spots demand your attention and labor. 
With the example and teaching of the Friend 
of a fallen race, we come to the men who fail 
to labor for the elevation of society, by the 
neglect of needy homes, and warn them of the 
doom that awaits them in the social upheaval 
that must come for the want of reform. The 
ascending of wrong against the right is ruin to 
a truth-loving people. You may think in your 
pleasant homes that you can safely rest in 
security from all the dangers that threaten the 
social order, but we will say that on your in- 
dividual action and attention rests the hope of 
deliverance from the assailing foe. 

When some contagious disease threatens 
destruction and death to American citizens, 
how eagerly the quarantine officers guard our 
shores to protect the interest and lives of those 
who may suffer from the jualady. We contem- 
plate with satisfaction the national means used 
to render the inhabitants of our shores free 
from the destroying touch of the messenger of 
death ; but while we admire the system that 
guards us from temporal death, let me say that 
there is a contagious moral disease more to be 
dreaded than physical death, that comes into 
the homes of the land to wring the heart with 
sorrow, to blast the hopes of immortality, to 
curse the soul with an eternal death. If the 



Home Sustains this Effort. 15 

health officers manifest such zeal to prevent 
the approach of disease to our shores, how 
much more industriously should the reformers 
of mankind act to stamp out the moral malady 
that ruins our country and our race. 

Heralds of the Cross, occupying the pulpits 
of the land, think of the influence of immoral 
homes that is obscuring the sunshine of joy ; 
remember that this contagious disease is leaving 
the soul a wreck on the shores of woe, and 
then come to the rescue, trampling on the 
popular opinions of men, discarding the prej- 
udice that may bind you to sect, to party, or 
to class, and plead the cause of a common re- 
form ! Members of various denominations, 
forget the creeds that make you a sect, forget 
the prejudice that binds you to a denomina- 
tional altar, and go out on the union line to 
battle for the standard of a common God! 
You must know that in union there is strength. 
Unite the churches in battle array, and the 
fortress of wrong must fall before their con- 
quering power. 

The combination of moral and religious force 
tells in the interest of needy man. The united 
minds of a community or a state in behalf of 
right form an army of conquest that surmounts 
every barrier of opposition, storms every strong- 
hold of Satan, and rescues the prisoner from 
the foe. Lingering on the rock-ribbed crags of 
Truth, and looking over the battle-field of 
Moral Action, we see the approaching triumphs 
of a cause that thrill the expecting heart with 



16 Footsteps of Truth. 

joy. But to gain this desired end every soldier 
in the army of Truth mnst be in his place in 
the battle-field. 

We trace further the agency of reform by re- 
ferring to the city fathers who may open the 
flood-gates of woe upon society, or bar some 
of the wrongs that afflict our race. We refer 
to these gentlemen as representative men of 
the city, knowing that their acts will be 
scrutinized in society and their official labors 
will tell upon the homes of the land. With 
this knowledge of their standing and influence, 
we beg of them to remember that official acts, 
recognizing wrong-doing for " blood money" 
offered by the violaters of law, will not pay the 
law-abiding citizens of the city over which they 
preside. Can the tears and sorrow of the vio- 
lated home be bought by dollars and cents? 
Can a civilized and enlightened people meet 
the violaters of law at the bar of reason and 
justice and, for a simple consideration of 
money, allow them to continue to trample 
upon the sacred rights of society, to blast the 
dearest hopes of humanity, and barter away 
the souls of men in order that the god of 
mammon may be gained and a selfish end ac- 
complished ? If it is wrong to violate law it is 
also wrong to give a permit for the violation 
of this law. No man in any official position 
can trample upon the law of his state or 
country without being a criminal. Justice 
demands that in the violation of law the penalty 
must be inflicted for the violation of the same. 



Home Sustains this Effort. 17 

Blackstone says, " The essence of all law is 
justice"; then we reach the conclusion that all 
" blood money " received for the violation of 
law must have a damning influence upon a 
people which tolerates such a course of action. 
Judas sold his Master for thirty pieces of silver, 
but the effects of that reception for the crime 
of betrayal was disastrous to the conscience- 
smitten Apostle ; and to-day the civilized world 
knows the fruits of this wrong action — a soul 
wrecked and lost in the Great Beyond of im- 
mortal existence. As the unhappy Judas car- 
ried that blood money and threw it at the feet 
of the scheming Jews, and then returned to 
meet his doom of destruction, so all wealth 
gained at the cost of human woe possesses no 
value to the receiver; but in the general make- 
up of human happiness it reacts upon society 
through the sorrow-stricken families of the 
land, through the darkened homes and through 
the fallen and degraded sons of men. 

Then to the officials of our cities we turn to 
find willing hands and ready workers who will 
discard every wrong action and guard the in- 
terest of home, where good society must find 
its source and where our government must get 
its defenders. 
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CHAPTER II. 

SCHOOLS ARE ITS FRIENDS. 

PASSING from the labors of urban authority, 
we enter a field of thought where we discover 
the interest of home, the prospective hopes 
of the social compact, and the future interest of 
the nation. We need not say that we refer to 
the common schools of the land. As citizens 
of this land we are proud of the public schools 
that make possible the education of every child 
within its limits. The provisions of the com- 
mon school system come to the door of the 
humblest homes of the state, bidding the head 
of the family and the guardian to send the child 
to the well-provided educational homes of this 
land without cost to them. 

All over the territorial limits of Kansas we 
see the school-house dotting the beautiful 
prairies, forming a way -station along the youth- 
ful journey of life to prepare the rising gener- 
ation for the duties that await them in the 
advanced positions of existence. We turn to 
some of the educational records of Kansas, and 
we find the state expending annually for its 
public schools four millions nine hundred 
seventy-two thousand, one hundred sixty-seven 
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Schools Are Its Friends. 19 

dollars; paying the teachers three million, 
twenty one thousand, sixty-six dollars ; while 
much more is paid out for the construction and 
care of buildings, libraries, apparatus, and for 
other necessary expenses. The state has build- 
ings and other property valued at ten million, 
six hundred seventeen thousand, one hundred 
fifty-one dollars, and the population is one 
million, four hundred twenty-seven thousand, 
ninety-six, while the public school enrollment 
is three hundred ninety-nine thousand, three 
hundred twenty-two, being over twenty-seven 
per cent, of the population. It is claimed that 
Kansas has a larger per cent, of enrollment than 
any other state of this Republic. With these 
facts and figures well may w r e point to the ex- 
ample of Kansas, that gives energy to her sons 
and places her in a central position of progress, 
as she is at present the central state in geo- 
graphical position. 

It was the privilege of the writer last year 
(1894) to stop in southern Texas. Although 
Texas is great in territorial extent, and with 
liberal provisions for the founding of common 
schools, yet in traveling along its brine-washed 
coast I saw few school-houses. 

Prior to that time having been a resident of 
Kansas for fourteen years, I could easily dis- 
tinguish the educational contrast between 
Texas and Kansas. The former has commer- 
cial advantages that Kansas does not possess, 
an inviting climate and a soil that will compare 
with any_sister commonwealth, yet the " Sun- 



20 Footsteps of Truth. 

flower State M advances with greater stretches 
of progress, and manifests greater energy of 
character, largely owing to the educational ad- 
vantages of her people. 

Kansas in her infancy was baptized in blood 
and fire. Within her borders met the two con- 
tending forces that characterize all established 
governments — one the advocate of constitu- 
tional liberty, the other the representative of 
oppression ; and for a while it was a question of 
doubt which would gain the ascendancy ; but 
ultimately the spirit of freedom triumphed, and 
homes were reared for the abode of a free and 
liberal people. 

It requires no great effort of mind to com- 
prehend the fact that in this triumph was the 
opening of a road of progress that led Kansas 
on to gain the high position in statehood that 
she holds to-day. The liberal ideas of a state 
or nation toward the rights and liberties of the 
people always lead to the educational interest 
of that people. To know that this is a fact, 
we need only read that in the ages of oppres- 
sion, in lands where the might of the imperial 
dictator bound the will of the subject, there the 
light of science entered not the humble home, 
and the mass of the people found no means for 
the development of their minds. A people 
without their constitutional rights are not only 
slaves to the government in which they live, 
but they are slaves to the dark powers of ig- 
norance. 

The worst feature of slavery is that which. 



Schools Are Its Friends. 21 

cripples the mind and unmakes the man 
Then, we see in this necessity of intellectual 
improvement. As unerring as the magnetic- 
needle, the recognized rights of humanity 
develop the human mind and better the con- 
ditions of our race. We would gladly impress 
this fact upon the mind of every citizen of our 
land. Could the protection of human rights be 
the object of all loyal and truth-loving citizens, 
we would see the rapid strides of an intellect- 
ual progress that would astonish the world and 
give greater advantages m the intellectual 
homes of our land. 

When we contrast this age, friendly to the 
work of education, with the illiterate and un- 
educated ages of the past, we can comprehend 
what the general spread of knowledge does for 
the thinking and intelligent man. You need 
only open the eyes of observation and you see 
every department of life active in the rounds 
of a development that works out benefits to 
the creature man. Instead of a few institutions 
of learning, that exist only for the favored few, 
you see now halls of science scattered over the 
land, and thrown open to man, where multiplied 
thousands bow at the altar of scientific devo- 
tion.- Instead of the slow, tedious stage-coach, 
requiring days and weeks to carry the few pas- 
sengers to their destinations, you now see the 
palace-car, bearing in a few hours its hundreds 
across a continent. Instead of the uncertain 
sailing-vessel, you now see the proud ocean- 
steamer plowing through fearful storms, bear- 



22 Footsteps of Truth. 

ing the offerings of commerce to distant shores. 
Leaving the achievements of steam, we see the 
once unconquered electric spark chained to the 
imperial car of Progress, sent on its mission of 
work beneath the waters and storms of the 
ocean, and flashing around the world to aid the 
hero of intellectual action on the field of neces- 
sary labor. When we contemplate the scien- 
tific and mechanical triumphs of man in the 
nineteenth century and compare them with his 
meager efforts when there was a want of a 
general possession of education among the 
great bulk of the civilized nations, we read the 
handwriting on the wall that tells the doom of 
a people which fails in educational opportuni- 
ties. 

The common schools of the land give impetus 
to youthful minds and send them out to labor 
for the elevation of their kind. If you would 
not go back to the slow-plodding rounds of an 
uneducated age, see that every child in your 
community has access to the public schools. 
Where there is a disposition on the part of 
guardians not to send the child to school, we 
would resort to a compulsory rule, for the in- 
terest of both home and state. A compulsory 
education is demanded by human society. 

The liberal provision of funds for the found- 
ing and support of schools, the erection of com- 
modious schoolhouses, and the appliances 
provided in the schoolroom to render the steps 
of education easy and successful, all indicate 
that American citizens are on their way to gain 



Schools Are Its Friends. 23 

advantages that come to a cultivated and edu- 
cated people. You that have witnessed the 
progressive steps of our nation in educational 
work, can, by a comparison of the past with 
the present attainments, hope for a movement 
further onward and greater superiority of intel- 
lectual strength and possession than the present 
gives to the occupants of American soil. 

On the romantic hills of western Pennsylva- 
nia a half a century ago was erected the old log 
schoolhouse that we recall to memory, destitute 
of every comfort of the present educational 
homes ; with no seats save the rough slab 
benches from the saw-mill, with no trained 
teachers, with no courses of study save those 
of reading, writing and arithmetic, with no well- 
planned text-books to interest and advance the 
pupil ; and, as we review this spot and sur- 
roundings, we also contemplate the fact that 
this in a great measure was the condition in 
thousands of localities in the land. After a 
residence of thirty-nine years in the West, the 
writer visited the spot where he first experi- 
enced the emotions of the " School Master's 
laving/' and there the hand of progress had 
set the unqualified teacher aside, removed the 
rude-constructed log schoolhouse and reared 
in its place all of the requisites of education- 
help that mark our growing Republic. 

Little did we think, when a barefooted boy 
playing at the western base of the Alleghany 
Mountains, that we would see the far west the 
home of millions of American citizens, and 



24 Footsteps of Truth. 

the center the field of educational action. Such 
is the wonderful progress of our land. 

But we must not rest contented with present 
possessions, but, on the watch-tower of truth, 
we must guard by intelligent action, by vigil- 
ance of purpose, the home, the state and the 
nation. A more perfect education will enable 
us to reach this goal of every loyal citizen. 
No man that loves party or sect more than 
principle can be a perfect educator of his race. 



CHAPTER III. 

PRINCIPLE IS ITS SUPPORT. 

Principle is a reality that is as eternal as 
the infinite God, but human organization is a 
temporal and transient object that is the effort 
of an imperfect being. Principle reaches out 
into the future and unending fields of action, 
to render service to the soul that needs a 
friendly help in ceaseless rounds of duration. 
To educate a man to respect and adhere to 
principle is to prepare him for the work and 
surroundings that await him in the future on 
the shores of time and also in the future of 
eternal life. We know that which will right 
his feelings, motives, and actions within the 
boundaries of time will do for him the same in 
the great beyond of immortal existence. The 
motives, the feeling, and the actions of a con- 
scientious and rightly educated mind will be on 
the side of right, and society is bettered by the 
part this mind will accomplish. 

To know the folly of men who ignore prin- 
ciples founded on the right, because the estab- 
lishing of those principles will thwart the pre- 
conceived notions of their own particular party 
or denominational church, we need but imagine 

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26 Footsteps of Truth. 

the man applying the torch of destruction to 
the dwelling that shelters him from the storms 
and dangers of time. If we should see the 
stately edifice wrapped in flames by the hand of 
the heretofore protected inmate we would con- 
clude the act of that protected son would be one 
contrary to reason and unworthy of sanction 
by an intellectual being. We stand upon the 
promontory of truth and look out over the 
great ocean of human action to find men ap- 
plying the torch of destruction to principles of 
protection that give a safe retreat and abode 
to thinking and reasoning beings. And as we 
contemplate these unreasonable deeds, we turn 
away, sickened with the thought that human 
folly thus perverts the happiness of our kind. 

If there is one thought above another that 
should be impressed upon the mind of the 
rising generation, it is that of regard for right 
principles above the selfish promptings of the 
age. Over four thousand years of human his- 
tory passed before it was fully taught that our 
race was bound together by the ties of a com- 
mon brotherhood, and a Christian system was 
announced to protect the same. Standing by 
this altar of worship and hurling back the self- 
ish thoughts of the age, we plead for humanity 
and the right. 

It is claimed that in all the dealings of 
humanity every man has his price. We admit 
that in human history many of the sons 
of men have sold themselves for position and 
profit, have acknowledged and protected the 



Principle is Its Support. 27 

popular wrongs of their age, in order that the 
tide of public opinion might bear them on to 
selfish success; but the fact may be told that 
there are some who have not bowed the knee 
to Baal, who still hold the priceless boon of 
manhood, and in unswerving rectitude uphold 
the standard of reforming truth. Back in the 
period of antediluvian corruption, we see a 
patriarch escaping the portals of the tomb and 
ascending the pathway to eternal felicity in 
consequence of his loyalty to right. Still on 
down the line of human history, we are re- 
minded of an Elijah borne in a chariot of fire 
up the trackless path to the haven of unending 
repose, for his faithful representation of the 
truth. Still looking farther at the actions of 
men, we see the hero and the martyr braving 
the dangers of time, enduring the hand of per- 
secution and death, before acknowledging the 
demands of falsehood or practising systems of 
wrong. 

The man who claims that every man has his 
price must include himself as making up the 
number that can be bought, and when he does 
this, he brands himself as a traitor to both God 
and humanity. We look with horror and 
sorrow upon the criminal in a felon's cell, and 
turn from the scene, sickened with the thought 
that this unfortunate fellow-man must be so 
degraded ; but when we claim that every acting 
unit of our race is, in fact, filling the same 
sphere that sent the criminal to his cheerless 
cell, we must paint a scene of damnation 



28 Footsteps of Truth. 

and woe that can only make our earth a 
dark hell. 

No man with the least spark of respectability 
announces to reasoning beings that every mem- 
ber of society can be bought ; and he, among 
the rest, will bow at the black, hellish altar of 
wrong for the vanishing bubble that never 
reaches the wants of an immortal nature. It 
is time that this theory would find itsopposers 
in official position, at the sacred desks, and in 
the common walks of life. Where you find 
men preaching this doctrine of wrong action, 
you find all political parties, in state and inter- 
national relations, sold to hell's dark influence; 
and beyond the domain of political action you 
find the organized churches tolerating wrQng- 
doing within the pale of society, 

This position, that all members of society 
can be sold willingly on their part for some 
consideration, has deadened the moral sensi- 
bilities of men who should guard the rights 
and interests of their race. If you would know 
the position that men take upon the moral 
purity of the age, go to the personal history of 
men who have robbed thousands of homes by 
the favorable legislative leverage that law- 
making departments have given to them. 
There, in their piled-up millions of the few, you 
hear, near the homes of opulence, the wail of 
sorrow from impoverished homes; you see the 
homeless wanderers on the highways of the 
nation, suffering for food and shelter; you see 
the gaunt forms of the heart-wrung wives and 



Principle is Its Support. 29 

ragged children ; you see the husband driven 
to desperation by the cries of dependent ones 
for bread ; but, with this wail of suffering 
sounding through the land, we see the ill-gotten 
gain of the favored son appropriated by him to 
build a church, to endow a college, or found a 
library — turning a deaf ear to the cries of those 
he has robbed under sanction of the law ; and 
with all this neglect and robbery, you hear the 
men, high in the scale of so-called morality and 
many of the recognized church members, laud- 
ing this son of Mammon to the skies for his 
princely gifts. 

Do you think this praise, by respectable 
men, of the hero of ill-gotten wealth, can be 
sanctioned by a just God ? Do you suppose 
that this mockery of charity, this selfish offer- 
ing of princely proportion, can give the donor 
a place at the right hand of a Judge who regards 
the interest of the human race? If the com- 
mon Father of mankind dealt with His children 
as this feature of human action sanctioned, then 
the harmonious system of Divine government 
would be a continued scene of chaos and 
misery. 

Here, then, we see the necessity of the 
Golden Rule for human action — the try-square 
that shapes the legal structure of human 
society and makes it approved object of a just 
God. Man in his relations to his fellow-man 
must remember that it is possible in the field 
of right action for him to legally sacrifice his 
personal interest for the public good, but never 



30 Footsteps of Truth. 

to sacrifice the public good for his personal in- 
terest. 

The destruction of public interest to accom- 
plish the end of individual seeking has never 
been the work of a truth-loving mind. We 
easily recognize the fact that the men who 
labor for a heaven-sanctioned government are 
the citizens who feel and act for the social 
rights which the political body was designed to 
protect. When you set aside these common 
rights and substitute in their place the individ- 
ual interest, you make the mistreated citizens 
of the nation slaves to individual rule ; and the 
homes that exist under the common flag are 
void of happiness and protection. 

The government that does not admit the 
equality of right for its subjects, but enacts 
laws that will sustain only the will of the few, 
is a detriment to good society and a usurper 
on the field of political action. Where this 
system of rule predominates in the nations of 
our earth, there the sad story must be told of 
human suffering and a people lost to all the 
hopes and pleasures of an intelligent and civil- 
ized life. This is the robber rule that defies all 
claims of humanity and makes the ruling spirit 
a demon destructive to the hopes of our race. 

In looking over the historic page, we trace 
the effects of selfish rule from the crown-head 
to the bandit, each alike filling a niche in the 
temple of time, and each in his sphere binding 
his fellow citizens to the rack of sorrow and 
pain. The protest of justice is heard against 



Principle is Its Support. 31 

every human action that endangers the hap- 
piness of the world ; and it matters not whether 
it is done under the cloak of law or in open re- 
volt. At that tribunal where alike stand the 
prince and the beggar, there the man who robs 
by the enactment of law and the man who robs 
by the defiance of law will meet on a common 
level and be judged for their transgressions. 
Men, comprehending the terminus of the path 
trod by the violaters of justice, must withhold 
their approbation of the wrong-doer, even if he 
on the verge of time tries to appease a God of 
justice and win the good will of men by his 
princely offerings. 

We need a change in the views and feelings 
of men who can look without condemnation on 
the wrong-doings of any class because that class 
blows the trumpet of selfish individual charity 
through acts that help the few instead of the 
masses. When men can see homes darkened 
by the unnatural acts of the robber, and then 
overlook and excuse the criminal because he, 
perchance, gives a part of his ill-gotten gain in 
the name of religion, then they must be want- 
ing in the moral sensibilities of right that are 
needed to guard the interest of our race. 

We cannot expect a more rapid development 
of a true morality, a greater progress in the 
Christian cause, until you get men to see the 
hideousness of crime in all the avenues of 
society, and get them to work to suppress the 
same. To do your duty as a patriot, as a 
philanthropist, and a Christian, you must meet 



32 Footsteps of Truth. 

all wrong-doing with an opposition that inquires 
not for worldly respectability of the illegal 
actor, but in your sphere and field of labor you 
must condemn the wrong and uphold the right. 
You must know that the man who robs the 
great mass of his fellows to satisfy his own in- 
dividual preference will be a foe to his race. 
The man who will not stoop to a beggar's wants, 
but will sound the boasting notes of praise of 
his far-published acts of general charity, is a 
rebel to progressive humanity and a hypocrite 
in the system of religious love. While you 
contemplate the boasted actions of the much- 
admired and much-praised liberality of selfish 
charitable heroes, remember it is not the 
quantity but the quality of the donator's charity 
that makes the true man. Go to the humble 
and unobserved widow casting her mite in the 
Jewish Temple, while the lordly Pharisee comes 
with gifts in proportion to a home of plenty 
and opulence ; yet the great Reformer of man- 
kind recognized the widow's charity as more 
acceptable than a Mammon-loving and selfish 
worshiper. 

If the men that we praise for their liberality 
had secured their millions on the field of honor 
and honesty, and then through selfish motives 
made their offerings, a God of truth could not 
commend the donator, and much less would be 
the commendation if the offering was gained 
through the blood and tears of his race. 

We repeat, then, that we need a change in 
the views and feelings of men in reference to 



Principle is Its Support. 33 

the practise of charitable action. Some of the 
greatest benefactors of their race have been 
men who have had but few dollars to give, but 
they have offered their energy on the altar of 
true charity to give success to humble homes 
and happiness to their seeking fellow-men. It 
is time that true manhood, and not Mammon's 
dollar, should be the standard to measure the 
merit of actors on the stage of human life. 

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CHAPTER IV. 

LOYALTY TO TRUTH CAN ONLY ELEVATE 
RACE. 

THE loftiest minds in every period of the 
world's history have been those of men who 
have sought their greatness outside of hereditary 
claims and circumstances. They have stood on 
the practical field of action as heroes in true 
elevation that represent the possible possession 
of man. Although the men who have risen by 
their own true manhood have been few in 
numbers compared to the great mass of a 
struggling humanity, yet it shows the possible 
dignity of human nature when legal action puts 
forth its claims independent of the prejudice 
of the times that only recognizes the aristocratic 
trappings of the age. 

Men easily drift into the current of popular 
thought and lose that independence of action 
that characterizes nature's true noblemen. 
The eagle in its upward flight by its own 
natural energy is a type of true manhood 
carried out on the field of intellectual labor and 
action. If the eagle was borne to the clouds by 
a borrowed force, no admiration of its flight 
would be found in story and song, so in the 
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Loyalty to Truth. 35 

temporary elevation of the race they, like the 
unplumed eagle, give no dignity to man, add 
no charms to intellectual action, and fill no 
sphere of intellectual progress. The borrowed 
trappings of unnatural surroundings lures 
humanity from the pathway of progress and 
educates it in the school of prejudice against 
the promptings of truth. It is a fact that the 
prejudice of a people keeps them from investi- 
gating the truth, 

When men are thus influenced, when their 
sense of right is so blunted that they lose 
sight of needed objects of happiness, how do 
you expect reform accomplished ? How do 
you expect progress of civil government and 
the purity of church organization ? Can you 
expect a people to be a body of thinkers, in- 
vestigating the problems of their times and 
directing the welfare of mankind, when this 
prejudice obscures the light of reason and keeps 
them slaves to some dictating will ? You have 
accomplished the first step of reform when 
you bring a people to the point of thinking for 
themselves. Thought overcomes the prejudice 
of the age and directs the intellectual actor to 
a home of enjoyment and happiness. You 
cannot enslave a people when they fill the 
sphere of mental action and obey the law of 
the progressive method. The oppressors of 
mankind, know that the oppressed will be 
submissive under a darkened intellect, hence 
their effort to excite no thought, but maintain 
the prejudice of the people. 



36 Footsteps of Truth. 

In material existence you can trace the 
development of nature through the rounds of 
the progressive method. With this uncounter- 
acted law there is no failure in the field of 
natural growth, nothing to turn back the tide 
of progression and blight the desirable fea- 
tures of the universe of harmonious action. 
From the tiny plants of but a few days' dura- 
tion up to the majestic oaks of a century's 
growth, we behold the hand of perfection 
shaping their existence and making them the 
objects that fill a legal place in the material 
world. Could the attractive flower bloom with 
beauty, or the stately forest tree withstand the 
pelting storms of time, independent of the 
means that points the delicacy of the one and 
give strength and durability to the other ? 

Sons of humanity, while you stand at the 
portals of nature and gaze at the perfect work- 
ings of a system that is legal, harmonious, and 
perfect in its operations, you can turn to 
another domain for intellectual investigation, 
and you will see the same necessity for the 
same law of the progressive method to make 
you and your kind fill the sphere that a God 
demands at your hands. As we have seen, we 
can trace the same law of progress in material 
nature along the line of spiritual existence, and 
find by reason's light the connecting link that 
binds the atom and the soul alike to the source 
of progress. That feature that makes material 
nature is stamped upon spiritual existence, 
and nothing but a rebellion by the free moral 



Loyalty to Truth. 37 

agency of man can thwart the effects of this 
God-given power. 

When the infant oak pierces the soil, how 
easy it is for the intruder and rebel against 
natural law to uproot the frail form and con- 
sign the plant to decay and death. So, in the 
infantile existence of morality, the immortal 
growth finds the intruding hand blighting the 
bright prospects of the soul and cursing the 
world with the demon effects of woe. The 
germs of progress may be slow in advance- 
ment, but the destruction of the advancement 
may be of short duration. How often is the 
work of an age set aside in a few T short hours, 
leaving only ruin for the expecting mind, and 
the wreck of hopes for a toiling people? 

If you would reform the world, remember 
that this reformation depends in a degree upon 
your individual action. The sorrows of the 
race in the home, in the field of political govern- 
ment, and in the domain of Christian action, can 
be traced to the incompetency of the unit of 
social organization. The individual character 
acting right, and the majority of the social 
compact standing on this base and working in 
harmony, will give a power in the world that 
resists the influence of wrong and makes the 
age one of hope to our race. It is the unit 
added to others that forms any number, so in 
the aggregate of society the individual lays the 
foundation of a social structure that benefits 
or curses his kind. 

When you see men so fettered on the field 



38 Footsteps of Truth. 

devoted to free action and thought that they 
can see no wrong in their party, no bigotry in 
their church, and hear no cry of distress com- 
ing up from the down-trodden of their race, 
you can rest assured that they will produce no 
good fruit for mankind and fill no place in 
society that will tell for human elevation. As 
well look for noonday splendor at midnight, 
or for the fragrant blooming flowers of May in 
December, as to expect the blind and fettered 
partisan or the religious bigot to stand on the 
threshold of truth and wield the arms of de- 
fense for a God-sanctioned cause. We would 
not set aside the love of party or the attach- 
ment to church organization when these means 
of human effort do not stand between you and 
the right ; but when the right must be sacri- 
ficed on the altar of destruction to uphold the 
claims of your association, then we would cry 
out against the outrage, and brand your par- 
ticular organization as an enemy to truth and 
denounce you as a rebel against God's law and 
a traitor to humanity. Where is the man that 
would not defend the fireside and the home 
when a determined foe would trample down 
the altar and destroy the ties that bind to- 
gether the inmates of this place. No man 
possessing the least spark of true humanity 
could see the work of ruin wrought to home 
and family without laboring to avert the dan- 
ger and place his surroundings on the ground 
of safety. The man that will not struggle for 
home's interest is unworthy the name of man. 



Loyalty to Truth. 39 

The throbbing heart of manhood beats in 
high expectation when we linger around the 
spot we call our home, and within the circle 
where heart is united with heart there is a 
repose that tells of unalloyed pleasure to the 
human mind. The hardened criminal at the 
bar of justice, when his home of purity and 
youth is called up to the mind, will shed 
tears of regret that the happy surroundings will 
no more thrill his soul, and home's sunshine 
will no more brighten his pathway. But while 
we see this strong attachment for home, we 
pause on the ground of reason and wonder that 
men can, in the busy whirl of human society, 
forget that the unfriendly organization to right 
will be the trespasser on this home and the foe 
of the domestic relations. The man that thinks 
his party or church can do no wrong, and will 
adhere to its invasions and transgressions of 
the interest of humanity, will be the enemy of 
home, the blinded bigot and the unpatriotic 
citizen. To get people to see their interest, 
and work for the same, is the object of every 
loyal citizen and the duty of every true dis- 
ciple of the Nazarene. Man must be an inde- 
pendent thinker and actor on the platform of 
truth, regardless of the popular wrongs of the 
times that bind the mind in slavery. 






CHAPTER V. 

A HOSTILE AGENT TO TRUTH IN THE PAR- 
TIZAN PRESS. 

In traversing the ground on which the indi- 
vidual man labors and exerts an influence that 
tells on the destiny of our country and race, 
we see inconsistencies that are unworthy of 
the laborer, and wrongs that blast the hopes of 
intelligence and disappoint the expectations of 
the reformer. Among these hostile agents to 
happiness we would call your attention to the 
partizan press. Do not think that we want to 
hold up the partizan of any particular party in 
the nation to ridicule in order to gain any self- 
ish claim of our own ; for above partizan pre- 
judice, above individual claims, outside of self- 
ish preferment, we desire to look down from 
the pure atmosphere of patriotic favor upon 
the political aspect of the country. Approach- 
ing, then, the subject with unbiased feelings, 
and knowing no party that is not a friend to 
the country, we raise the standard of revolt 
against that portion of the press that would 
stifle truth when the development of the same 
would defeat the organization that they repre- 
sent. Every one that wishes the free and un- 
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A Hostile Agent to Truth. 41 

trammeled investigation of principle knows that 
a fettered and selfish press, allied only to cir- 
cumscribed cliques and classes, will shut off this 
investigation when their favorite hobbies and 
opinions might lose ground in the development 
of facts. We expect much from the teaching 
of the press in the land, but when this teach- 
ing ignores the means that better the lot of man 
and uphold falsehood, how can we hope for such 
teaching to renovate the heart and right the 
wrongs of the world? 

Truth has the power to dispel every cloud 
of gloom when we find ready hands and willing 
workers on its side in contest between truth 
and falsehood ; but let those engines of power 
on which good society relics for aid be used 
in the hands of truth-hating demagogues, and 
in this attack on the welfare of mankind you 
witness the work of ruined prospects, you con- 
template the destroyer's hand, and you hear 
the wail of sorrow coming up from the homes 
of the land. 

At the beginning of every grand epoch in 
human history you can recall the deeds of the 
enemies of truth as they try to arrest the on- 
ward march of progress for the perpetuation of 
the order of things that have marked their 
nation, their class, and their sect. Go to the 
dawn of the Christian era and see Judaism in 
its long-intrenched partizan position, arrayed 
against the most perfect system of worship 
that was ever offered to man. In the efforts of 
Jewish opposition to Christianity you witness 



42 Footsteps of Truth. 

a malignant hate that now astonishes the well- 
disposed mind ; and to-day no excuse can be 
offered by the civilized world for those deeds of 
shame and infamy that gave character to the 
wonder of civilized man in Jewish history will 
in the coming ages of history, in reference to 
the position of a large portion of the partizan 
press, be the wonder of the reformer along the 
line of reason and thought. No agent in the 
field of intellectual action can hold neutral 
ground between truth and falsehood. It w r as 
said by the world's greatest Reformer, " He 
that is not for me is against me.'' Then he that 
is not for the truth is the friend of falsehood 
and the opposer of right. 

Among the inconsistencies of the partizan 
press we find the disposition of the supporter 
to be unfriendly to the publication of facts that 
will tell against his party. We have watched 
with much anxiety the suppression of truth to 
uphold the claims of associations merely for the 
purpose of plunder and place. You cannot 
believe, in the home of reason, that the tongue 
of the press can teach a free and loyal Ameri- 
can citizen to believe that the dark ways of 
wrong are preferable to the happy and pro- 
gressive ways of right. When you say that 
you favor the suppression of truth you take the 
position that the success of your party is more 
desirable than the prosperity of your country, 
and the spoils of office and place must be 
secured before true manhood. When the sun- 
light penetrates the vast space of the solar 



A Hostile Agent to Truth. 43 

system unobstructed, it leaves no place with- 
out the blessing of light, and in the planetary 
revolution we see those portions of our earth 
without the sun's piercing and warming rays ; 
so in the sunlight of truth every obstruction 
of the same brings the chilling power of retro- 
gression ; the angry storm of time, that dwarfs 
the soul, that ruins the prospects of humanity, 
and makes our land and nation the locality of 
a fearful hell. Then to the advocates and sup- 
porters of a partizan press, who would cut off 
the penetrating and reforming power of truth, 
we ask you to point out the advantages that 
your circumscribed, selfish labor can give to 
home, to country, and mankind. 

As the failure of a central luminary would 
leave the solar system one vast wreck, so the 
failure of truth would darken every prospect 
of human society and unmake and ruin the 
mental and spiritual nature of man. All the 
promptings of a generous and patriotic heart 
tell the reasoning creature, man, that the ob- 
struction on the highway of progress must be 
removed to gain the greatest good to the 
greatest number. Knowing this, and also 
knowing the tendency of the partizan press to- 
wards the demoralization of American citizens, 
we cannot insist too strongly for a reform in 
this direction, that will give moral tone to the 
power of the press. 

When you would stand up for the right, 
when you insist that principle, that truth, 
demands a hearing before the temporal and 



44 Footsteps of Truth. 

selfish views of designing demagogues, then the 
cry is heard through the land that the advocate 
of Heaven's high law is a " crank," unworthy 
of the hearing of an aristocratic age. The in- 
sulters of truth, bowing at the altar of wrong, 
sold to the demon of woe, as already shown, 
think that " every man has his price," and by 
this system of action hope to prolong the era 
that will perpetuate the rule of the foes of a 
common humanity. 

Looking beyond the disregard of the partizan 
press for the truth, we trace another step in 
their inconsistency by tracing the slanderous 
charges against the men who are independent 
of their partizan rule. When you see the 
leaders of a party willing, only in the star- 
chambers of unapproachable secrecy, to discuss 
the individual character of opponents, and who 
refuse to discuss the broad principles of right 
on the open field of investigation, you can rest 
assured that these men are no friends of their 
country and no benefactors of their race. 

You would think, in the personal contest 
that characterizes our political campaigns, that 
the highest motive of the would-be patriot was 
the degradation of men who stood on opposite 
ground to their political faith. As we see this 
feature of our political contests supported by 
the partizan press of the land, we can see the 
necessity of reformation commencing in this 
department to reach the happy effect of redeem- 
ing and elevating the people. The nation, to 
triumph on the road to prosperity, needs the 



A Hostile Agent to Truth. 45 

aid of all its citizens, and nothing but impartial 
rectitude and loyalty to God's eternal law of 
right can make our nation elevated, prosperous, 
and free. 

To show farther that the American people 
need an educational work in reference to the 
partizan press of the land, we refer to the per- 
secution of men who differ from the council in 
the star chamber of partizan rule. Let a bold 
thinker step out on the pioneer field of thought 
and call the attention of the nation to wrongs 
that need to be righted, to principles that 
affect the brotherhood of man, to systems that 
link immortality to the eternal God, and he at 
once raises a storm of opposition that sweeps 
over our country, attended with all the malig- 
nant hate and persecution that a combined 
partizan force, through the agency of their 
press, can bring to bear on the advocates of 
God's plan of rescue and safety. This resort 
of persecution by the Devil's hell-hounds has 
stood in the way of every movement that 
tends towards the restoration of a second Eden. 
If necessary, we might particularize on this 
point. Go to the persecuted Son of God in 
His mission to establish the grandest system 
of truth that was ever offered to man, and you 
see the combined hosts of Judaism and 
paganisn struggling to crush the matchless Re- 
former. Go to the field of battle, where the 
sons of liberty have contended for a better lot, 
and you see the rallying cohorts of despotism 
disregarding the claims of humanity, establish- 



46 Footsteps of Truth. 

ing a long night of despair for men under their 
illegal acts. 

The dawning star of reformation that arose 
on the horizon of time through the energy and 
will of the " Solitary Monk of Europe " follows 
westward the track of commerce and art to a 
world to found a home for liberty-loving sons ; 
but we see fast in pursuit the same power that 
darkened the empires of the East following 
this star of hope, to make humanity a wreck 
and the home of liberty, the abode of ruin. 
Although we see no blazing fires of papal per- 
secution consuming the corporeal body, or the 
torturing racks of the Inquisition distorting 
the physical nature of man, we see beyond the 
physical pain a persecution more to be dreaded 
than bodily woe — and that is Fell's engine of 
wrath that cripples the mind, that blunts the 
moral sensibilities of the soul, and makes im- 
mortality a failure on the field of felicity and 
joy. 

Though we read with horror of the blazing 
fires of Smithfield or the tortured forms 
of Protestantism under the sway of papal 
authority, yet we can turn to a persecution of 
free and intelligent men under the Stars and 
Stripes of liberty, in the home of American 
citizens, on a soil dedicated to freedom, that is 
more to be dreaded and calls louder for means 
to avert it than the persecution of a darker age. 
The man in the blazing light of the nineteenth 
century persecuting the defenders of truth for 
the purpose of building up and establishing 



A Hostile Agent to Truth. 47 

wrong objects and wrong doctrine, is more of a 
criminal in the eyes of justice than the man 
that so acted in a darker period. 

With this view of the condition of society, 
how important is it that we have more educa- 
tional work from the loyal press, from the pul- 
pit, from the statesman, and from the truth- 
abiding American citizen. To persecute a man 
in the interest of the wrongs of the age is set- 
ting aside every sacred tie of home, is loading 
the children of men with burdens that unmake 
the man, and thwart the fundamental doctrine 
of the Christian system. Whatever can please, 
whatever can elevate, whatever can benefit 
needy humanity, is set aside by the malicious 
foe of persecution, the disorganizer of human 
society. With these facts before the people, 
well may they demand a halt of the partizan 
mind in their work of ruin and desolation of 
human interest. 



CHAPTER VI. 

THE TEACHING OF THE NAZARENE WILL 
PRODUCE REFORM. 

WHEN there is a lack in the disposition of 
men to acknowledge the claims of moral and 
religious rectitude we must, as agents favoring 
the needed condition of the race, look to the 
means that God has provided to bring back 
the destitute and the suffering to the position 
that alone will give moral health, spiritual 
elevation, and natural vigor to the sorrow- 
stricken and suffering ones of earth. We may 
know that the doctrine of the Christian religion 
in its purity and in its untrammeled power has 
given the greatest advancement to the toiling, 
care-worn sons of sorrow, and we can with 
reason's assurance turn to it to smooth the 
pathway of humanity and restore society to a 
position of success and happiness. To know 
what the doctrine of the Nazarene has done 
for the world is only to know those periods and 
places in the world's history where the mind 
has not heeded its precepts or has never heard 
the soul-elevating story of the Cross. There, 
in either case, we must witness the doom of a 
miserable class lost on the barren shores of 
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The Teaching of the Nazarene. 49 

woe and subject to the cruel pangs of pain that 
outraged mental, moral, and physical nature 
must endure. 

To be in accord with the throbbing philan- 
thropic heart of the Son of God is to be in ac- 
cord with that high law of progress that origin- 
ated with the Infinite Father. Human nature, 
that has been so much abused and despised, 
stands on the threshold of eternal existence 
with the pure nature of the Son ; and this law 
that God gives to immortal beings finds its hold 
on this nature, binding it to the highest ob- 
ject in the universe to make it the limited 
representative of the Divine power. We 
wonder at the narrow views of men when we 
hear them extolling the religion of the Cross 
to the skies and at the same time crying down 
human nature, as something that must be neg- 
lected and overlooked. 

What is a religion without an undying nature 
to accept it ? The foundation of religion is the 
soul, and the soul is that nature of man that 
characterizes him as a free agent, responsible 
and progressive. Then, when you talk of reli- 
gion coming to the help of man, it is not a far- 
fetched something that comes from some por- 
tion of the universe to lend a helping hand to 
the fallen, needy creature man, but it is that 
system of action and reality that makes the 
spirit the possessor of a joy that attended it 
when it came from the hand of a perfect God. 
It is the lifting up of the soul to God. It is 
the soul coming back to its allegiance under 
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Footsteps of Truth. 



the standard of Divine government. It is 
original purity of the soul restored and a carry- 
ing out of the law that will make the race one 
of progress and elevation. 

Then, in the wrongs of the age that are sup- 
ported by the acts of parties that are upheld 
by those agents that a partizan spirit has called 
into existence, we naturally turn to the men 
who claim to be the disciples of Christ, who 
are the advocates of a soul-elevating system of 
worship, to find friends of the soul, of religion, 
— to find counteracting agents to party wrong- 
doing. Yes, to the church, to the pulpits of 
the land, we claim to find the opponents of 
wrong, and the men who will herald the truth 
to a responsible age that the shackles of servi- 
tude must be struck from society and the 
home of civilization must be that of peace, 
prosperity, and happiness. Could we find a 
ready response from these sources where the 
mind expects labor and influence for the down- 
trodden and needy, we would not hesitate to 
claim a speedy victory on the side of right ; 
but as we glance along the line of battle we 
must confess that under the banner of the 
Cross we see the cringing sycophant, shielding 
by his flattery the hosts that would blast 
humanity's fair prospects. In the pulpit and 
at the Christian altar we are compelled to record 
the fact that there is silence on the part of 
workers to the world of the dangers that sur- 
round the public mind. This failure to de- 
nounce the wrong-doer in the high walks of 



The Teaching of the Nazarene. 51 

life, because popular sentiment is on the side of 
wrong-doing, makes the silent disciple an enemy 
of his calling, and the system he would repre- 
sent powerless in the reformation of the race. 
Was the Son of God a silent observer of the 
wrongs of Judaism when God's Temple was 
polluted by the deeds of men who held high 
places in Jewish society ? He sought not the 
good will of the illegal actors, but, with the 
persuasive rule of physical force, the intruders 
of a dedicated sanctuary were driven from their 
position. In the bold position as a reformer 
He asked not the views of the Sanhedrim or 
felt the popular pulse of the aristocratic Phari- 
see : but on along the line of truth the Saviour 
took His way. To those wrapped in the mantle 
of a truth-sustaining Gospel, we would say: 
Remember the erroneous views of your age, 
of your land and country, and let not a domi- 
neering society make you forget the right. 

But some will say that the idea we advance 
will bring about the practise of preaching 
politics in the pulpits of the land, and the field 
of politics is too corrupt to find a place 
and hearing in the churches to-day. If it be 
true that American politics are so corrupt, how 
necessary is it, then, that the pure agency of 
right should enter the arena to replace the 
sons of corruption with subjects and actors 
that will love the right and protect the interest 
of a God-loving humanity. He who would 
forget his duty under the plea of corruption, 
let him remember the position of the Divine 



52 Footsteps of Truth. 

Mind when a world was lost and spiritually 
benighted in the fall of man. The hopeless 
and corrupt condition of God's children was no 
reason why He should leave them in their 
depravity, for on the field of Divine action the 
hand of aid is reached out to a race. So, in 
the moral degradation of the American citizen, 
we redeem the degraded and fallen, must re- 
move the means that had brought about the 
corruption that has darkened the homes of the 
land and made the representation of a Repub- 
lican Government the representative of moral 
crime. And if God saw that it was in accord 
with His government to redeem a fallen race 
is it the part of reason for His church to be 
blind to the claims of society, on the ground 
that the field of operation is too corrupt for 
the purifying agency ? The w r aste places of 
humanity demand the attention of man to 
make them places of usefulness and profit to 
the subject ; and the herald of the Cross that 
forgets his calling and work because he will 
have to condemn the corruption of parties and 
renounce the accepted views of the popular 
wrong, is not the true soldier of the Cross, but 
must be regarded as a traitor to the Christian 
system and the agent of contaminating woe. 
We would not only condemn the unwilling 
ministerial worker, but wherever a disciple of 
the Nazarene is found with a disposition to 
accompany the wrong-doer or acquiesce in 
those unholy deeds of shame by a want of out- 
spoken condemnation there, at the bar of 



The Teaching of the Nazarene. 53 

reason and justice, we impeach that half- 
hearted disciple as a criminal against God's law 
of progress. The man that does not carry his 
religion into his politics is a hypocritical pre- 
tender in the sanctuary of God's house. 

As we witness the position of men in regard 
to political action, we are led to the conclusion 
that the present domain of the political actor 
must be beyond the range of God's empire, 
and for God's representative of truth to labor 
for the purity of a political life is something 
beyond God's jurisdiction and outside the 
duty of the Christian laborer. 

Is it any wonder that the field of American 
politics is beyond the sunlight of truth, when 
truth finds no votaries in the hosts of men lost 
to every sense of shame and who claim that 
their particular mission is independent of 
church teaching and God's authority to 
command ? Preaching politics ! is sneeringly 
sounded through the land to keep men from 
investigating the follies of parties and setting 
aside the power that gives men place and 
plunder in the nation. Preaching politics is 
shunned by men as though it were a crime 
that would corrupt the purity of the church 
and disgrace the character of the would-be 
Christian worshiper. 

If humanity is ever Christianized in the 
sense that will be approved by a truth-sanc- 
tioning God, it must be by a change of heart 
that will respond" to the demands of right in 
every department of life. Every power of our 



54 Footsteps of Truth. 

immortal nature must be for the right. We 
cannot be nice, smiling Christians within 
church walls, and brazen demagogues and 
devils when the soul is bartered for a " mess of 
pottage." Trying to stand on the dividing 
line between right and wrong is as impossible 
as trying to make falsehood truth. You may 
dress falsehood in the garb of truth, but the 
deception cannot escape the searching eye of 
a God of truth. Then, how necessary that the 
defenders of truth, the reformers in a moral 
and religious change of human society, should 
be honest in every avenue of human action, 
recognizing the fact that truth never changes, 
that wrong-doing must find a rebuke. 

The true friend of right acts for it because 
he loves the right. Light shining out on the 
field of space gives cheer and usefulness to the 
illuminated space. Truth, with its illuminat- 
ing power in the moral world gives changes 
of success and happiness more marked and 
more needed than the physical light that acts 
on the outward organization. But while the 
people or the church teach against preach- 
ing politics, and then turn and see humanity 
fettered in a state of slavery more intolerable 
than that servitude that bound the black man in 
the South, you will see a state of society that 
cannot boast of the pleasures of home or feel 
that thrill of joy that animates the subjects of 
truth. Attempting to be outside reformers, 
and at the same time cherishing a warm regard 
for deeds of shame and positions that would 



The Teaching of the Nazarene. 55 

disgrace the foulest spirit in hell's dark region 
of despair, is an inconsistency that disgraces 
the name of humanity. The lost spirit beyond 
the bounds of hope offers his petition that his 
brothers be warned by the means that located 
him in the abode of the damned, and if a 
hopeless, ruined soul could look out over his 
former field of action with the yearnings of 
love for his exposed friends upon the shores of 
time, what should be the feelings and action of 
men claiming respectability and the position 
of reformers, when they see their land and 
nation deep plunged in the vortex of ruin and 
the people suffering from that demon that 
blasts every hope of truth. 

Do not let the characters that people a land 
of despair and night put to shame the men 
who live in the closing years of the nineteenth 
century. Ministers of the Gospel, followers of 
a truth-loving religion, and friends of a suffer- 
ing humanity, rally around the standard of right 
and draw in its behalf the sword of defense, 
until the popular wrongs of this age shall find 
no support in a land dedicated to the Father 
hood of God and the Brotherhood of man ! 






CHAPTER VII. 

THE WANT OF THIS REFORM IN A NATIONAL 
SENSE THE WORK OF AN APPRECIATED 
CURRENCY. 

To acknowledge the parental disposition of 
the Divine Mind and practically recognize the 
ties of a common kindred is the base of the 
Christian system and the means that make the 
earth the home of every generous impulse of a 
redeemed and elevated nature. Love to God 
and mankind strikes the key-note of a rapturous 
song that thrills the immortality of every order 
of pure intelligence, and we can trace its 
harmony out along the road of eternal exist- 
ence, giving more expanded excellence to the 
actor and a greater degree of joy to the subjects 
of this universal law. In the dark deeds of 
wrong and rebellion to this law, well may the 
reformer turn to the support of men who claim 
the Gospel of good-will as their mode of action. 
We have insisted on their help in every trying 
hour of distress, and when they have failed to 
do their duty in the dark and suffering period 
of benighted humanity, we have not hesitated 
to denounce them as enemies of their kind. 

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- The Want of this Reform. 57 

Every man with proper relations to God and 
humanity must see the claims of right before 
the demands of any temporary creed, party or 
association. If, then, in turning to the political 
surroundings of our country and our homes, we 
should denounce a creed, a party, or an asso- 
ciation, do not think that malice or prejudice 
prompts us to the act, but remember that these 
particular objects stand in the way of a higher 
law — a law that must not obey any selfish 
motive or circumstance of the age. With this 
understanding of position and will that adopts 
the necessary teaching of truth in all the de- 
partments of human existence, we approach the 
discussion of our country's surroundings, to 
awaken the slumbering patriot, and arouse a 
spirit of investigation in the American mind. 

The question we raise for the beginning of 
this investigation is : Are there not wrongs in 
our national position to-day that must be 
righted, to bring the citizen of the government 
back to prosperity and happiness ? Every 
American, in the calm hour of unbiased re- 
flection, knows that a change has come over 
the nation which shuts off the general pros- 
perity of the subjects of this Republic. 
Observation teaches us that a large majority of 
the people are in a position to feel the want of 
prosperity ; and to argue that this majority are 
in this position because they possess not the 
natural ability to rise in the scale of progress 
and prosperity, is assuming a theory that makes 
the race a failure and the Creator an incom- 



58 Footsteps of Truth. 

petent actor in the creation of man. You can- 
not throw the blame for the destitution and ret- 
rogression of the citizen upon the failure of a 
God to give ability to the most of the subjects 
of our government, for a just and all-powerful 
being would not make His children below the 
scale of ability to provide for the common 
wants of needy and dependent beings. The 
very existence of this free, moral, and inde- 
pendent creature sustains the point that the 
Father of spirits, places all on the platform of 
a common equality, and the bulk of the race 
with common surroundings will reach the goal 
of success in the toil and efforts of human life. 
The equal relations of the creature to the 
Creator and the justice of the Common Parent 
of our race demonstrates the fact that no ex- 
tensive pauperism and destitution should mark 
this land of vast resources and wealth. Setting 
aside that well-established argument in the 
Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of 
man that shows the common equality of man's 
natural ability, we trace the fact that where 
common surroundings have favored any people, 
there the sun of prosperity shines on that 
people, giving them the natural wants that 
humanity demands. Here, under these circum- 
stances, we see not the wealth of the nation 
concentrate^ in a few hands, but contentment 
and joy lingering around the hearthstones of 
the nation, and all traveling the road that makes 
the sons of men possessors of desirable happi- 
ness. 






The Want of this Reform. 59 

Give a people by legislation the natural re- 
sources of a nation that will open up the marts 
of trade, that will give commercial activity, and 
start the wheels of financial life, and you at 
once remove every barrier that blocks the road 
of national prosperity. Ignore this legislation, 
and you change the laborer to a tramp and 
worthless unit in the social compact. 

Men high in councils of the nation and re- 
spectable in the social relations of life think 
that no enactments of legislative bodies can 
lift the weight of distress from the shoulders of 
humanity or stop the march of an improvident 
army in the land. With proper incentives to 
the citizen of a civilized and enlightened nation, 
it is as impossible for him to relapse into the 
beggar and tramp as it is for nature to violate 
its own laws. We have too much faith in 
human nature to think that it will assume the 
position of degradation and woe when it is 
properly protected and surrounded with the 
appliances of a prosperous life. You know that 
wherever the home of equality has been reared, 
there you see the busy hive of industry, making 
the land and homes bright with the radiant 
smiles of joy, and the tide of humanity moving 
forward at the command of an impulse that 
knows only the elevation of man. Glancing 
along the highway of human existence, we see 
every wheel in the complex system of human 
action moving its regular rounds, and in the 
whirl of continued motion you hear the tri-^ 
umphant song of progress. 



60 Footsteps of Truth. 

But where circumstances are against the 
mass of human actors we need not expect this 
genera] elevation, this song of good-will and 
peace cheering the children of men. Instead 
of harmonious action, you can contemplate the 
determined struggles of men who stand to-day 
in homes of opulence on the ruins of their 
neighbor's homes. Yes; these men who have 
reaped the harvest of financial success at the 
expense of the many are the men who are op- 
posed to any change that will give relief to the 
many. When this opposition comes from the 
prosperous few of our nation, who know that 
their unnatural success on the field of finance 
has been at the expense of the crippled re- 
sources of their neighbors, we ask you : Must 
we heed this opposition, as worthy of sanction in 
any generous mind? Must the representatives 
of justice bow at the dictation of the selfish 
hero that circumstances have created ? Every 
sense of right in a reasonable and truth-loving 
mind rebels against the circumscribed and self- 
ish policy that ignores the liberal elevation of 
man. This, then, argues that we need finan- 
cial action that will open up a change to the 
many. 

To reach the homes of the land the increase 
of wealth in the nation needs to come into the 
hands of the many and not into the hands of 
the few. The palatial residence of the million- 
aire, surrounded by the pauper's hovels, is not 
a mark of national wealth or an indication of 
human prosperity. Men have claimed that the 



The Want of this Reform. 61 

aggregate of national wealth, that has accumu- 
lated of late years in our country, is an indication 
of our national prosperity, and, to reconcile the 
public mind to the order of things that makes 
the wealthy prince and the multiplied suffering 
paupers, have pointed to the figures that tell 
of the piled-up millions in the land. Of these 
men that thus try to uphold the wrong of our 
times we will ask : Is the favored few more 
desirable than the prosperity of a common 
humanity? Must the tears of sorrow flow 
from the eyes of the oppressed masses in order 
that a small portion of humanity may revel in 
luxury ? Then, of the men who teach that the 
few are to be preferred to the many, we ask 
you to call a halt on the journey of life and 
listen to the voice of reason, that will make 
you men, and your fellow-citizens partakers 
with you of that dignity that characterizes an 
intelligent being. To make the rich richer and 
the poor poorer is not the part of reason, nor 
is it the part of that just system of government 
that betters the condition of a race. 

Returning to our prelude laid down in this 
work, we reassert that we are a friend to no 
church or political party or organization of 
men that is not friendly to home, to country, 
and to mankind. We know at the altar of 
Christian devotion, on the field of govern- 
mental science, and in the legal organizations 
of men, that no transgression of humanity's 
laws can be tolerated at the bar of reason. 
The power that shows a partiality to one por- 



62 Footsteps of Truth. 

tion of humanity above another will, in the 
field of active life, thwart the designs of justice 
and plant the seeds of sorrow for the children 
of men. " Equal rights to all and special priv- 
ileges to none M is a position from which the 
hosts of right can assail every stronghold of 
the foe of humanity. 

Looking out over the financial battle-fields 
of a contending world, we can discover the pre- 
ponderance of power that this fact gives to the 
struggling friends of right. A government 
must give the necessary amount of the life 
blood of commercial circulation to insure ac- 
tivity in all the marts of trade and carry for- 
ward the interest of all the people. Money is 
to commerce what blood is to the corporal 
system. Take away the blood from the phys- 
ical body of man and this body loses its useful- 
ness as the home of the immortal part of man ; 
so, in the circulating medium of commerce, di- 
minish the amount that necessity demands, and 
we see business stagnation, commercial inac- 
tivity and ?. financial loss in all the productive 
labors of the citizen under the diminished 
money of the nation. 

Men schooled in true politics admit the fact 
that a want of the medium of commerce will 
work the ruin of a people engaged in commer- 
cial transactions. On this point we turn to the 
testimony of John Sherman, of Ohio. Mr. 
Sherman said on the Senate floor in 1869: 
" The appreciation of the currency is a far more 
distressing operation than senators supposed. 



The Want of this Reform. 63 

It is not possible to take this voyage without 
the sorest distress to every person, except a 
capitalist out of debt, or a salaried officer, or 
annuitant. It is a period of loss, danger, lassi- 
tude of trade, fall of wages, suspension of en- 
terprise, bankruptcy and disaster. To every 
railroad it is an addition of one-third to the 
burden of its debts, and more than that deduc- 
tion to the value of its stock. 

11 It means the ruin of all dealers whose debts 
become twice their business capital, though one- 
third less than their actual property. It means 
the fall of all agricultural productions without 
any great reduction of taxes. What prudent 
man would dare to build a house, a railroad, a 
factory or a barn, with the certain fact before 
him that the greenbacks he put into his improve- 
ment will in two years be worth thirty-five per 
cent, more than the improvement is worth ? 
When that day comes, all enterprise will be 
suspended, every bank will have contracted its 
currency to the lowest limit, and the debtor 
compelled to meet in coin a debt contracted in 
currency. He will find the coin hoarded in the 
treasury — no adequate representation of coin 
in circulation, his property shrunk, not only to 
the extent of the appreciation of the currency, 
but still more by the artificial scarcity made by 
the holders of gold. To attempt this task by 
a surprise on our people, by arresting them in 
the midst of their lawful business, and applying 
a new standard of value to their property with- 
out any reduction to their debts, or giving them 



64 Footsteps of Truth. 

an opportunity to compound with their creditor, 
or to distribute their losses, would be an act of 
folly without an example of evil in modern 
times." 

Here, in these predictions of Mr. Sherman, 
the financial surroundings of the nation that 
heeds not the appreciation of money in the 
commercial trade and prospects of that country, 
is faithfully set forth before the mind. Prior to 
the time that the medium of exchange recog- 
nized in this government was given its increased 
value for the interest of a moneyed aristocracy, 
the trade of the land was active, and every im- 
provement kept abreast with the onward spirit 
of the times. No man could give a truer de- 
scription of what would follow in the wake of 
this unphilosophic finance than that which Mr. 
Sherman has given to the American people. It 
would have been well for the citizens of our 
country had they heeded this warning and es- 
caped the financial distress that pressed so 
heavily upon the homes of the land. Taking 
up every item in the prediction of warning by 
Mr. Sherman, we see in the sad realities that 
surround us that this warning of danger was 
verified in the history of our nation. How 
true it is that financial sorrow has been the lot 
of every man " except a capitalist out of debt 
or a salaried officer or annuitant." 

Outside of these classes, that are but a hand- 
ful in comparison to the class that looks for 
constitutional means of traffic, we are compelled 
to record the story of woe, losses to the finan- 



The Want of this Reform. 65 

cial disciple in his toil for recompense, and a 
stagnation of business that brings the wolf of 
want to the door of the producing and laboring 
class. An increase in the value of money 
means an increase in interest that money com- 
mands. If interest reaches a point that enter- 
prise cannot compete, you reach a period when 
business must give way to inactivity, and all 
offerings become depreciated in the markets of 
the world. It is evident that the price of any 
commodity of trade will determine the profits 
of men who stand between the producer and 
the consumer. And if the price will not justify 
the production of a commodity, we discover 
first the fall of wages, and second, the suspen- 
sion of all enterprises that have led to. the pro- 
duction of this commodity. Hence you see 
the fall of labor and the suspension of trade. 

It is this state of affairs that revolutionizes 
society and induces the wail of suffering and 
want in the land. Take away the daily supply 
that must come to the families of the great 
army of labor in the nation, and you take aw r ay 
the means of life, you take away the comforts 
of home, you take away the realities of citizen- 
ship, and convert the sufferer into a character 
destitute of all the ennobling traits of true 
manhood. With the continued results of an 
appreciated currency we see beyond the robbed 
and degraded wage-worker the pall of financial 
death settling over every department outside of 
the interest gatherer that forces the wealth of 
the times into his own favored vaults. 



66 Footsteps of Truth. 

As sure as the daily rising sun gilds the 
portals of the east, that sure is Shylock of his 
profits under a system that makes money dear 
and all other property below the standard of 
legal value. Well may Senator Sherman say, 
" What prudent man would dare build a house, 
a railroad, a factory or a barn, with the certain 
fact before him that the greenbacks he puts 
into his improvement will in two years be worth 
thirty-five per cent, more than his improvement 
is worth." 

The appreciation of the money belonging to 
the money oligarchy was a death-blow at labor 
and enterprise in this country. The effect of 
this cause is plainly written on the historian's 
page of our country's history. In the United 
States' census of 1890 we find that there are 
twelve million families, and in connection with 
this fact, it is told that there are nine million 
mortgaged homes in the land. Of men of reason 
we ask : Why are there nine million homes 
darkened by financial gloom? Pause at the 
work-bench and the plow, pause in all the marts 
of trade, and tell the cause of three-fourths of 
the people paying tribute to the other fourth 
in a land that boasts of respect to the human 
race. You would expect that our nation, 
with a Constitution based upon the rights of 
man, a wealth that foots up over sixty billions 
of dollars, with a commerce plowing every sea 
and a national respectability in every court of 
the civilized world, would stand up in the 
national hall of manhood with her subjects 









The Want of this Reform. 67 

standing shoulder to shoulder in the onward 
march of progress. But the figures already 
quoted indicate a cause for this unnatural 
disparagement of a large portion of the 
nation. 






CHAPTER VIII. 

LEGISLATION HAS BEEN AGAINST THE PRO- 
DUCERS OF WEALTH. 

LOOKING, then, for the reason of this finan- 
cial failure, we can easily trace it to the cause ; 
and that cause is that legislation has been 
against the producers of wealth and in favor of 
a bond-holding class. If labor could compete 
with the interest-gatherer, then the products 
of labor would command a price that would 
pay the laborer for his toil. But turning to 
the past and comparing the prices of agricul- 
tural products in different periods, we can reach 
the fact that the leverage of the legislative 
action in favor of Shylock has been against the 
interest of honest toil. 

In 1867 nearly sixty-six millions of acres of 
land were in cultivation in the United States, 
which yielded a product that sold for over a 
billion dollars. In 1887, with twenty years of 
rule in favor of the interest- gatherer, we had 
double the amount of acres in cujtivation, that 
produced double the amount of grain, and 
this sold on the market for one billion two 
hundred four million two hundred eighty-nine 
thousand dollars, or seventy-nine million seven 
68 






Legislation is Against the Producer. 69 

hundred eleven thousand dollars less than half 
the number of bushels sold for in 1867. With 
an average of demand for the farm products of 
1887, there should have been more money to 
the credit of the farmer than there was in 1867, 
much less a deficit of over seventy-nine mil- 
lions of dollars. What prudent business man, 
finding such loss in his business relations with 
the commercial world, would not make the 
effort to find the wrong and shape the surround- 
ings so there would be no loss of such vast 
proportion ? 

If it is reasonable for individual effort to 
seek a redress of the wrongs and losses that 
might attend him in business life, then we ask 
the reasoning mind, must we not follow the 
same system of action in the redress for the 
wrongs and losses that attend the farmers of 
the nation to-day? When we look around on 
the prospects of labor, we discover the fact that 
labor in i860 owned forty-three per cent, of 
the national wealth, and in 1880, after two de- 
cades, we find labor only owned twenty per 
cent, of the same ; and we are forced to the 
conclusion that it is but a question of time 
when the representatives of labor will wear the 
shackles of a servitude that knows no brother- 
hood of the race and no claims of the Father- 
hood of God. 

Men may shut their eyes on these scenes of 
desolation and distress, but the inveterate re- 
sults of a continued downward descent of the 
great bulk of society will bring the wronged 



70 Footsteps of Trutho 

subject to the precipice of ruin. When the 
legislative wave of continued action in the in- 
terest of the ascending class of a moneyed 
aristocracy lashes the barren and desolate 
shores of labor, you may expect the occupants 
of these shores to feel the want of a protection 
that will leave them at the mercy of the favored 
few. The continued falling off of labor's share 
of the national wealth tells that this failure of 
a struggling class unmakes the citizen, and this 
loss of these men goes to the men who are 
favored with the means to manipulate this 
wealth. Men shrewd in business practices 
shape the surroundings so that the stream of 
wealth will flow into their possession. Look- 
ing at the possibilities that will attend a line of 
action, they work to accomplish the means that 
will carry out this end that their business fore- 
sight approves. 

We see the force of this truth as we survey 
the past financial action of our nation in the 
monetary plans of men who are now increasing 
their per cent, of the nation's wealth. The 
laboring interest held its own in the possession 
of the wealth of the land until there was a con- 
traction of the money. From this time on to 
the present there has been a shrinkage in the 
resources and interest of men who produce and 
handle the necessities of life. Prior to this 
period of a contraction of the currency, labor 
was well paid and fully employed in improving 
the wilds of our public domain and rearing the 
homes of prosperity and peace all over the 



Legislation is Against the Producer. 71 

land. Every product of the farm found a ready 
and liberal market and went into the families 
of the employed laborers ; the hum of industry 
came from the mechanics' shops ; the merry 
song of the agriculturist sounded out along the 
highways of the nation, and the smoke of the 
factory told of a satisfied and prosperous people. 

On the twelfth day of April, 1866, Con- 
gress passed a law authorizing the Secretary 
of the Treasury to sell 5-20 bonds and with the 
proceeds retire United States currency, includ- 
ing greenbacks. On December fourth, 1866, 
E. C. Spaulding, a Buffalo banker and member 
of Congress, wrote to Secretary McCulloch as 
follows : 

" You, no doubt, now r , to a certain extent, 
have the control of the currency of the country, 
and I think that you will of necessity contract 
moderately so as to preserve a tolerably easy 
money market. There may be occasional 
spasms and tightness for money, but, gener- 
ally, I shall look for plenty of money for at 
least one year to come." 

At the time Mr. Spaulding admonished the 
Secretary to " contract moderately, so as to 
preserve a tolerably easy money market/' we 
had $1,906,687,770 currency, and during the 
year only six hundred and two business failures 
for the entire country. But as contraction pro- 
gressed and the appreciation of money told on 
commerce, we see the fears of Mr. Spaulding 



72 Footsteps of Truth. 

realized. From 1866 to the close of the year 
1877, we find a contraction of currency that 
amounted to over a billion of dollars, and a 
loss in the commercial world of over a billion 
and a half of dollars, with sixty thousand one 
hundred and twenty-nine business firms driven 
to the wall. 

With such a record of financial wo during 
twelve years of contraction must we not awake 
to the fact that a dearth of money will bring 
ruin on any people that depends on the legiti- 
mate trade of civilized life? This financial 
depression cannot be ascribed to business mis- 
hap outside of the cause that we have offered 
in this work. 

Turning our attention to the shores of Eng- 
land we can trace the same effects that char- 
acterize the American people. In 1797, Eng- 
land suspended specie payment, or in other 
words, she suspended the decision that gold 
and silver only were money. England, in tak- 
ing this position, found in Sir Archibald Al- 
ison, the European historian, the recorder of 
her prosperity, when he told the fact that this 
position in finance was " ushered in by a com- 
bination of circumstances the most calamitous, 
both with reference to external security and in- 
ternal industry, it terminated in a blaze of 
glory and flood of prosperity, which have never 
since the beginning of the world descended 
upon any n&tioa." 



Legislation is Against the Producer. 73 

As the prosperity of the English people was 
protected by this blaze of glory, Colwell says : 
" A vast revenue of hundreds of millions of 
dollars of commercial debts were paid every 
year of the suspension, with little or no inter- 
vention of the precious metals, — facts which 
deserve a better explanation than has ever been 
given. " 

But, at the close of the war with Napoleon, 
the cry was made by the billionist and gold 
gamblers that English commerce must comply 
with a metallic base of value, and 181 5 was 
set for the time to commence the work. In 
1 81 6 thirty-seven country banks were driven 
to bankruptcy and hundreds of business men 
found financial ruin by not being able to ob- 
tain discounts. The historian, Doubleday, 
says : "In hundreds of cases, from the tre- 
mendous reduction which now took place, 
landed estates barely sold for as much as 
would pay off the mortgage, and hence the 
owners were stripped of all and left beggars. " 

Three-fifths of the landowners were left 
houseless and homeless, and 1871 the fact 
was told that twelve persons owned one-half of 
the whole kingdom. 

Such are facts relating to English history 
that tell the American citizen that our own 
financial efforts have led to suffering that has 
attended our commercial life. " With the sign- 
post of financial history pointing to the road to 



74 Footsteps of Truth. 

ruin, we ask : Do the American people need the 
investigation of wise Solons on the cause of 
financial depression, when their acts of inquiry 
only are to secure a re-election to the Halls of 
Congress?" The man that applies the fire- 
brand to his home and then seeks an investi- 
gation to ascertain why the consuming element 
has leveled the protecting walls of that home 
would be considered an unreasonable char- 
acter in a reasonable world. How great, then, 
are the inconsistencies of men who apply the 
firebrand of financial ruin to home and country 
and then meet in council to ascertain the cause 
of this financial wo. 

It is said that ninety-five per cent, of all the 
commercial transactions of the world are ef- 
fected with paper tokens based on the credit of 
individuals and on the credit of nations ; and, 
if such are the conditions of commercial ex- 
istence, would it not be the height of folly to 
discard this ninety-five per cent, and attempt to 
the business of the world only on five per cent. ? 

For centuries this metallic base has been the 
delusion of civilized man. Men, bound to- 
gether only by the prejudice of party and as- 
sociation, echo the cry that " Gold and silver 
coin is the money of the world." In business 
life the responsibility of the man rests not only 
on a vault filled with coin, but on his resources 
in property, in honor, and on his business 
capacity. Thousands of men by these means 



Legislation is Against the Producer. 75 

reach out the arm of energy and success over 
every field of commerce and reap the harvest 
of progress, enjoy the fruits of triumph, and 
open up the advancement of man. If the success 
of the individual in business life depends on a 
business base of credit that is carried on by 
ninety-five per cent, of paper tokens and only 
five per cent, of metallic money, it is equally 
true that the government can assume the same 
position and reach the same results;, and with 
greater ease than individuals. A government 
that discards this base of credit, founded on the 
natural resources of wealth, and adheres to the 
limited resources of a specie base delusion, will 
not only cripple its national prosperity, but it 
will arrest the business enterprise and success 
of the individual within its dominion. 

We ask who the men are who defend the 
position of confining the commercial interest of 
the world to a specie base? It is not the indi- 
vidual that develops the resources of a nation; 
it is not the man that raises the products that 
supply the needs of a hungry world or mines 
the ores that fill every want of the arts ; it is 
not the hardy pioneer out on the waste places 
of territorial existence, rearing new homes for 
civilization and opening up brighter prospects 
for the race; but it is the man who absorbs 
the profits of toil, who fills the place of a 
usurer, who reaps the harvest of wealth that 
other men have produced, and who taxes every 



76 Footsteps of Truth. 

department that has added to the wealth of 
individuals and nations. The man that fills 
a place in the financial world with only the mo- 
tive of being a leech on society, that knows no 
high aspirations for the elevation of needy 
humanity, that travels not beyond the boundary 
of selfish motives, — he is the last man that 
should direct the financial prospects of man- 
kind. As well employ the incendiary to extin- 
guish the consuming flames that are destroying 
your dwelling as to look for the commercial 
happiness of a care-worn world in the hands 
of men who are only the blood-suckers of com- 
mercial life. 

Every man in the field of commercial exist- 
ence knows that the prosperity of the times 
depends on an adequate medium of exchanges 
that must give activity to trade and easy trans- 
action between the members of commercial as- 
sociation. We have seen the eager, selfish 
motives of men who would cramp the business 
transactions of the world on the plea that the 
precious metals must be the governing power 
of commercial existence. History informs us 
that " The discovery of gold in California 
scared the Rothschilds and other European 
bondholders ; and to prevent an elongation in 
the measure of values they induced Belgium and 
Germany to demonetize gold, and make silver 
the sole legal tender. After the placer yield 
of gold became exhausted in California, and the 



Legislation is Against the Producer. 77 

heavy yield of silver from the Comstock lode 
in Nevada began to flood the marts of Europe, 
the Shylocks got frightened again and induced 
Belgium to demonetize silver and remonetize 
gold, as the only legal tender. The silver flood 
continued, and Germany was next induced to 
change her measure of value, just to please the 
bondholder; and in 1874 she demonetized 
silver and made gold the sole tender." 

Here, in history, does it appear that gold and 
silver is not the money of the world, when they 
are both set aside at the dictation of men who 
see only the object of self-interest? Must the 
bondholders of Europe shape the financial 
surroundings of mankind by dictating a policy 
that ignores the wants of a needy race? Must 
the wide field of commercial interest be laid? 
in general ruin to make the interest gatherer a 
prince in worldly possession? Must the cry of 
despair go up from millions of homes to sus- 
tain the position of a few favored sons of earth ? 

The greatest good to the greatest number 
should be the motto of every true reformer, but 
in this condition of affairs the rule of action in 
reversed, and it is the greatest good to the few 
in number. 



CHAPTER IX. 

LAW GIVES MONEY A COMMERCIAL VALUE. 

THESE facts in history also show that the 
legal standing of any medium of commercial 
exchange depends upon the enactment of law 
and not on that antiquity that the bondholder 
would have you believe. In visiting those 
countries where the law makes a discrimination 
between gold and silver, we are apprised of the 
fact that law makes the legal-paying quality 
to the boasted commercial mediums that Shy- 
lock extols to the skies. We are told that in 
the city of London, in 1847, during a financial 
crisis, sixty thousand pounds in silver were of- 
fered as security for a small loan in gold coin ; 
but the law that gave gold the preference in 
legal transaction made this vast amount of 
silver inadequate as a security for a much less 
amount of gold. Also in 1864, when a financial 
panic was pressing the people of Calcutta, 
twenty thousand pounds of gold were offered 
in security for a small loan of silver rupees, but 
in that period of financial distress no man could 
be persuaded that this boasted money of the 
world was the representative of value, because 
it was not acknowledged a legal tender of this 
eastern country. 

78 



Law Gives a Value to Money. 79 

We see in every nation of the world that 
where there is a recognized value of any one 
of the two precious metals that the one that 
fails to be sanctioned by law as a legal tender 
for all debts is deprived of its money power 
and becomes only a commodity in the marts of 
trade. It is, then, the authority of law that 
makes money, and not an intrinsic value that 
attends the material of which the money is com- 
posed. Back of a value that surrounds the 
material of which money is made there must 
be a sovereign power that will make the 
medium of exchange in commercial transac- 
tions. Without the authority of this sovereign 
power no material nor substance can take its 
place on the field of commerce and be recog- 
nized by the actors in trade as a reliable 
medium by which to exchange the possessions 
of man. Then, we find that on the basis of 
financial reason, it is not the usurer's hobby of 
metallic money that leads the race on to higher 
possessions of progress and improvement. 

As we see the fluctuations of the metallic 
money, even where it is the recognized medium 
by law, we wonder how it would maintain a 
fixed value outside of law. To the men who 
would tie down the interests of commercial 
existence to the inadequate basis of a gold 
standard of commercial measure we would argue 
the unstable value of this gold when circum- 
stances are brought to bear on it to act its part 
in the necessary affairs of men. 

As much as the defenders of metallic circula- 



8o Footsteps of Truth. 

tion boast of the permanency of the bond- 
holder's money, we find in Doubleday's 
Financial History of England that the advance 
in the price of gold from iSiOto 1813 was over 
twenty-nine per cent, and that the decline in 
price from 1^13 to 1816 was about the same. 
From i8i6to 1819 the price advanced again 
over sixteen per cent, and in another year it 
declined seven per cent. If gold is the reliable 
money of the world, why this change in its 
value in the short space of ten years ? 

But we can come closer home on this point 
to find the unreliable service of gold in the hand 
of the financial vultures that prey upon ihe 
common happiness of a needy race. In 1861, 
w T hen our government found itself confronted 
by a rebellion that threatened its national ex- 
istence, it appealed to a volunteer soldiery to 
meet the foe on the field, and afterwards called 
on the money power for loans to enable these 
brave men to strike for the interest of liberty. 
To the first demand there came a cheerful 
response, and from the plow, from the work- 
shop, from the mercantile resorts, and from the 
mines all over the land the brave volunteers 
rallied under the stars and stripes; but when 
the call for financial assistance was made the 
money power asked twenty-four to thirty-six 
per cent, interest, to save the life of the nation. 
Prior to these national demands, when the war- 
cloud was seen above the horizon, we look for 
11 the money of the world " and find it locked 



Law Gives a Value to Money. 

in : :ng vaults of Shylock, prep. 

to the : r made to the nation. When : 

rbitant rate of int< i not be paid, 

and gold refused : from 

in the hour of peri", then rhe nation authorized 
the j of dc liars : 

notes, which, v .uent en 

made a full legal tender for all debts public and 
private. Then the >ng 

gold a determinate ;:; I : 

the nation:: use the banker's gold Following 
this act that re rhe nat: . : : ; pressing 

financial wants, a banker- 
called >hington to make the; led 
gold a national want: and in the treas- 
ury notes issued on the err lit : : the nati ::: we 
see a legal tender for all debts public and pri- 

. ; ;:; im[ : rts and interest 
the public debt. Here was a demand for the 
banker- gold A : men that tried be 

force their usury upon the nation in its he 
of need: tried to pe: ingress that the 

nation's credit depends upon the selfish prompt- 
ing of selfish men. 

With this triumph : the a the 

land, wha: was the ^r:^ That "money of 
the world' lose : the value :: twe 
and eighty-five rents in the crippled and depre- 
dated treasury notes land nc 

thout this exception clause, stood on a par 

th the banker's gold 



82 Footsteps of Truth. 

Perhaps there is no more humiliating scene 
on the pages of history than that of Congress 
sacrificing the nation's credit to advance the 
selfish interest of men who would have scuttled 
the ship of state for the almighty dollar. To- 
wards the close of the w T ar thegovernmentpaid 
the union soldier sixteen dollars per month in 
greenbacks. That soldier could take that six- 
teen dollars and buy the same amount of gov- 
ernment bonds. So far this is all right in the 
soldier's interest, and if all men had received 
the same treatment, we would have no occasion 
to pen a protest. But we turn to the men who 
did not respond to their country's call ; who 
held their gold as more sacred than life, and 
who in the dark hour of danger managed to 
force the nation to bow at the imperial bid- 
dings of their golden god; and here we find 
that these men, under a manipulated currency, 
under and by the Exception Clause that crippled 
this currency, take sixteen dollars of their gold 
and purchase forty-five dollars and sixty cents 
of greenbacks, which at their face value secures 
the same amount of government bonds. We 
discover in the transactions of the soldier and 
the gold owner a difference of twenty-nine 
dollars and sixty cents in favor of the man that 
had secured the corner on gold. To so shape 
the financial surroundings in our country that 
the man who did the least for the grand old 
flag would secure the greatest financial bene- 



Law Gives a Value to Monej'. 83 

fits is a work that demands condemnation by 
every loyal son of humanity. With such dif- 
ference of profits in the business of a land that 
claims to guard the rights of man we must con- 
clude that an agency, that gave such a power 
into the hands of men who had shown their 
want of patriotism, had failed to do its duty 
in the hour of our country's distress. 

Hon. Thaddeus Stephens, when on his death- 
bed, referring to the struggle that gave the gold 
brokers the means of securing these profits, 
said : 

" Yes, we had to yield. The Senate was 
stubborn. We did not, however, until we found 
the country must be lost or the bankers grati- 
fied. And we have sought to save the country 
in spite of the cupidity of its wealthier citizens. " 

Patriots of America, think of the grave 
charges that a dying man makes against a band 
of men who preferred the shining emblem of 
gold before the world's hope of political ele- 
vation. Cupidity, in her dark and selfish re- 
treats, martialed the hosts of wrong until 
patriots had to yield to save the life of the 
nation. 



CHAPTER X. 

THE CONTROL OF THE MONETARY SYSTEM 
MAKES THE CONTROLLER A MASTER. 

To strengthen the fact that our monetary 
system has been against the interest of labor 
and the happiness of American homes, we quote 
the testimony of Horace Greeley, offered 
about the time that our financial system began 
to bear its fruit. Mr. Greeley said : 

" We have stricken the shackles from four 
millions of human beings, and brought all 
laborers to a common level; but not so much 
by elevating the former slave as by practically 
reducing the whole population, white and 
black, to a state of serfdom. While boasting 
of our noble deeds we are careful to conceal 
the ugly facts that by our iniquitous monetary 
system we have practically nationalized a sys- 
tem of oppression which, though more refined, 
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel 
slavery." 

If every American citizen had boldly as- 
serted the truth as Mr. Greeley did there would 
have been no " nationalized system of oppres- 
84 






Control of the Monetary System. 85 

sion " in our land brought about by an " in- 
iquitous monetary system/' And when we, 
through the necessities of a war, gave the black 
man freedom, the proper position in regard to 
the elevation of that freedom would have been 
an ample provision of the means to give ac- 
tivity to trade so he could provide the neces- 
sities of life. Emerging from a state of bond- 
age, four millions of human beings are thrown 
upon the American people without homes, 
without provision in life to supply their wants 
and that with an order of finance that cut off 
labor from these needy freedmen of the land. 
With the territory of the South, to a great de- 
gree, rendered desolate by the hand of war, 
with the freed slave calling for daily bread, and 
enterprise cut off that would open up an ample 
field of labor, with an equal demand for labor 
among the laboring white men of the nation, 
and all unable to obtain this labor, — is it any 
wonder that we see both white and black labor- 
ing men reduced to a state of serfdom ? Well 
might one of the greatest journalists of the age 
point to the sad surroundings of our country, 
telling the fact that labor was about to meet its 
Waterloo of defeat that would bring an oppres- 
sion " no less cruel than the old system of 
chattel slavery." 

But to still show that our monetary system 
has been against the interest of labor and 
American progress we cite a fact in history 



86 Footsteps of Truth. 

that must bring the blush of shame to the cheek 
of every conscientious heart. In 1862 on the 
shores of England a combination of English 
capitalists representing the money power of 
Europe issued a " Confidential " circular and 
commissioned a London banker by the name 
of Hazard to interview American bankers 
with the view of having Congress enact legis- 
lation that would carry out the ideas embraced 
in this " Confidential circular/' As these for- 
eign bondholders saw the upheaval of society 
on American soil, which would of necessity 
create a debt upon our nation, they also saw 
that here might be a chance to engraft on our 
financial tree the same policy that on the fields 
of Europe was making millionaires of a fa- 
vored few and pauperizing the common masses. 

We find the determination of foreign finan- 
cial oppressors, as they looked to our war- 
scourged shores, set forth in the following 
language : 

" Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war 
power, and chattel slavery destroyed. This, 
I and my European friends are in favor of, for 
slavery is but the ow T ing of labor, and carried 
with it the caring for the laborer; while the 
European plan, led on by England, is capital 
control of labor, by controlling wages. This 
can be done by controlling the money. The 
great debt, that capitalists will see to it is made 
out of the war, must be used as a measure to 



Control of the Monetary System. 87 

control the volume of money. To accomplish 
this, the bondo must be used as a banking 
basis. We are now waiting to get the secretary 
of the treasury to make his recommendation 
to Congress. It will not do to allow r the green- 
back, as it is called, to circulate as money any 
length of time, for we cannot control it." 

It will be seen that the men who were the 
advocates of a financial slavery were not fa- 
vorable to chattel slavery, only on the ground 
that the master had to care for the laborer. 
This declaration gives us insight to souls that 
knew no tie of sympathy for a race; that 
ignored every generous impulse of a true hu- 
manity, and made the oppressors of the same, 
demons worthy of the lowest pit of hell. They 
were in favor of the overthrow of chattel sla- 
very because the way could be opened for a more 
profitable servitude for them, — that of a con- 
trol of labor by capital, which will not throw 
the burden of sustaining the oppressed upon the 
oppressor. 

This is the European plan of gaining the 
almighty dollar : by robbing needy homes of 
the proceeds of toil, by controlling the wages 
of the civilized world. The key that was to 
unlock the treasures of wealth to these men was 
to give them the control of the volume of 
money. No bills of national credit that were 
outside of the authority of Shylock's com- 
mandments could find the favor of continuing 



88 Footsteps of Truth. 

in existence. A national banking system that 
could contract or expand the currency of the 
land, independent of the nation's wants, and 
based on the credit of the nation, was the aim 
of the " confidential " circular that emanated 
from the foes of prosperous labor. Has not 
the shaping of our financial system been in ac- 
cord with the suggestions and plans of these 
foreigners ? 

The reality we see in the daily rounds of 
life tells the story of an oppressed class that has 
not, and cannot hold its share of financial 
possession. The rapid decline of labor's share 
of the national wealth since i860 bears us out 
in the position that this foreign scheme of 
finance adopted by this country is telling with 
fearful effect against a large portion of Amer- 
ican citizens who were formerly the possessors 
of wealth accumulated on American soil. Then, 
to adopt the European plan led on by England, 
and pauperize the laborers of our shores, is 
a deed that deserves condemnation by every 
patriot of the land. We cannot admit that the 
wishes of a foreign agent should be the policy 
of any American. Americans, with their vast 
resources and a relation to a government that 
was founded on the rights of man are heirs to 
a patrimony not willingly conceded by many 
of the foreign powers of Europe. Knowing 
this fact, we then take the position that yield- 
ing to the demands of the representatives of an 



Control of the Monetary System. 89 

enemy to constitutional liberty, is a step that 
is dangerous to the existence of the govern- 
ment under which we live. Any foreign inter- 
ference with the affairs of our country cannot 
be tolerated if we would guard American in- 
terests. Our fathers comprehended this fact 
when the Holy Alliance meditated mediation 
between Spain and her revolted provinces in 
Central and South America. This interfer- 
ence on the part of the enemies of the popular 
government on the shores of the New World 
gave rise to the Monroe Doctrine, that has been 
a cardinal feature in the relation between 
America and Europe. Along the line of national 
action we have seen that this doctrine has been 
the security of every power on this side of the 
Atlantic, and even when w^e were convulsed 
by internal strife, it gave the sister republic 
of Mexico relief from the grasp of one of the 
royalty of Europe. That royal son crowned 
on an imperial throne in the territorial limits 
of Mexican soil, by the backing of France, met 
his sad doom when France was made to under- 
stand that no usurpation could be recognized 
of the rights of man in America. 

Seeing the beneficial effects of this doctrine, 
we were prepared to combat the infringement 
of the same in the move that the bondholders 
of Europe made to enslave a free people upon 
our shores. It would have been well for the 
American citizen if the same spirit that ani- 



90 Footsteps of Truth. 

mated our former ancestors had found a place 
in the Halls of Congress when the designing 
foe of human liberty came there for the con- 
quest of our homes and our happiness. We 
know that in foreign courts, where the char- 
acteristics of our land are the opposites of 
theirs, there cannot be a disposition of hearty 
support of our mode of action and existence 
that there would be between governments of 
similar character. While we would recipro- 
cate every act of friendship coming from the 
powers of Europe, we would, on the field of 
international action, guard the future from 
any invading foe that these powers might 
present. Every man, unbiased by party prej- 
udice, uninfluenced by national ties, knows 
that no offering of an opposite to our free in- 
stitutions can be safely acted on as a rule of 
action, or accepted as a guardian to the citi- 
zens of free America. Then, when a foreign 
influence comes into the legislative halls of our 
country to give character to our people and 
future action to our national existence, it is 
time that the people awake to their danger and 
resist the influence exerted by foreign agents 
and foreign courts. The safety of any people, 
standing on the eternal principles of right, is 
their own power for their own protection. 

We have said that this yielding to the policy 
of foreign influence was enough to bring the 
blush of shame to the cheeks of the true patriot. 



Control of the Monetary System. 91 

and we will now add that it offers an insult 
to the memory of those revolutionary fathers 
who resisted foreign intervention and laid the 
foundation of the government we now enjoy. 
If these patriots of the American Revolution 
had been wiling servants at foreign diction, 
no crowning act of freedom's glory would be 
the wonder of the age to-day. They saw that 
without their independent, individual action a 
Jong night of oppression and despair would be 
the lot of a people cramped and mistreated 
under a foreign" yoke. They saw the dawning 
of the star of political hope above the horizon 
of time, and to have that star shine on un- 
dimmed to guide a race in the upward ascent 
to a position of radiant day, they resisted the 
foreign intervention that was thwarting the 
movements of progress. 

When we look back on that heroic band of 
men who met the foreign foe of human liberty, 
and protected the God-given rights of humanity, 
we catch a glimpse of the possibility of a re- 
deemed and disenthralled race. With this ex- 
ample and effort of a noble ancestry to instruct 
and guide us, we turn to the period when the 
standard of human rights was trailed in the 
dust, when the " European plan led on by Eng- 
land " found its supporters in the Halls of 
Congress, and the men who claimed a relation- 
ship to the heroes of 1776 became the supporters 
of this foreign policy. 



92 Footsteps of Truth. 

If opposition to a foreign dictation against 
the right gave us the grandest government the 
sun ever shone upon, then a like position with 
the subjects of this government must be taken 
to meet a similar foreign influence, and to per- 
petuate this government of the people. 



CHAPTER XL 

THE DEMONETIZATION OF SILVER GAVE 
CONTROL TO THE MONEY. 

LOOKING from the standpoint of reason, that 
Americaft interest needs American protection, 
we now come to another fact in our national 
history to show the cause of our financial 
depression; and that is the demonetization of 
one portion of that circulation that Shylock 
has denominated the money of the world. We 
have already shown that, w T here the bond- 
holders of Europe possessed an influence to 
dictate the fate of either of the tw r o precious 
metals in other lands beside our own, they 
have used that power, independent of public 
interest or the wants of the laboring class, to 
increase the amount of their wealth. When 
the interest of these men created the necessity 
to remonetize gold in Belgium anc Germany, 
and prepared to demonetize silver, then, with 
the financial aid and influence of other powers 
on the eastern side of the Atlantic, they brought 
their interest to bear on these western shores to 

93 



94 Footsteps of Truth. 

induce our people to follow in their footsteps, 
and demonetize silver in the United States. 

If you would know that our charges against 
this foreign agent, engaged in international 
acts of finance, are correct, you will turn to the 
Bankers' Magazine of August, 1873, an ^ read 
the following : 

" In 1872, silver being demonetized in 
France, England, and Holland, a capital of 
$500,000 was raised, and Ernest Seyd, of 
London, was sent to this country with this 
fund, as agent of the foreign bondholders and 
capitalists, to effect the same object (demon- 
etization of silver, which was accomplished.)" 

It can be seen by the authority of this official 
publication that, in the move of crippling a 
portion of the boasted international circulation, 
where were found willing workers on the other 
side of the ocean, and a half a million of dol- 
lars were brought here to insure the success of 
the work. Upon the ground that it was the 
duty of Congress to demonetize silver in our 
country, we ask where was the necessity to use 
this half-million of foreign money to carry the 
measure through the Congress of our land? 
When we know that this amount from 
European bondholders was carried to our 
shores for a specified object, and that object 
was secured, we must tremble for that high law 
of honor and honesty that should characterize 
the American people. 



The Demonetization of Silver. 95 

But, setting aside the plausible inference of 
an invasion of honor that marked a portion of 
the actors in this land, we take the position 
that it was not the duty of our law-making 
department to set aside the money power of 
silver, when history shows that its standing, 
when brought to the financial executioner's 
block, was two per cent, above gold. 

A charge against any human, being in a 
claimed court of justice unsustained, and yet 
sentences of guilt pronounced against him 
would be an outrage against the high law of 
justice, and a blot on that court that would 
doom an innocent being to the pangs of suffer- 
ing and wo. True manhood in its lofty posi- 
tion would cry out against this deed of shame, 
and every generous throbbing heart would 
sympathize for the sorrow-stricken son. Then 
what is true in the relations of man to man in 
the field of moral action is borne out along the 
line of financial work where duty and honor 
must be the guide of men who hold the finan- 
cial destiny of a nation in their hands. 

When silver fn its monetary relations was 
serving the people with an effect equal to gold 
and even having a two per cent, advantage over 
gold, where was the call of the people to dis- 
card their friendlv a^ent ? Where was the neces- 
sity of crippling the financial resources of the 
nation, and pronouncing silver circulation an 
enemy and traitor to the wants of the toiling 



96 Footsteps of Truth. 

humanity? As well doom innocent humanity 
to a felon's cell as to reach out the demonetiz- 
ing hand against the silver circulation of the 
nation. 

No national power can disregard its national 
resources to please any people, when these 
resources are legal agents of right and actors 
on the field of a progressive humanity. The 
act that steps beyond the needed wants of our 
nation and produces a new measure of mone- 
tary value, that lowers the price of all com- 
modities, must undoubtedly work the ruin of 
every class except the money holder. 

In agricultural life the husbandman that 
would refuse to take a paying price for his 
products would be unreasonable and unqualified 
tc fill a place in affairs. Not to recognize an 
equilibrium in the necessary commodities of 
life and the commercial medium of exchange 
is the misery of the age and the cause of finan- 
cial wo when the money holder gains the 
ascendency by the diminution of the money. 
And has not the demonetization of silver en- 
hanced the gold and led us on towards that 
position where no equilibrium governs com- 
mercial life? Following the avocation of farm- 
ing, we have learned by sad experience the want 
of an equipose in commercial relations, when 
we have been compelled to sell our products 
for less than the cost to produce them. No 
man with such surroundings in the busy pur- 



The Demonetization of Silver. 97 

suits of life can meet the requirements of ex- 
istence and prosper on the field of commercial 
action. 

When we had both the precious metals to aid 
us in the transaction of commerce we found 
that the wants of trade often fell far short of 
the required amount that this trade demanded. 
Then, is it reasonable to expect that a single 
standard of gold can meet the wants of our 
nation and give her toiling subjects the means 
to exchange the fruits of their labor for an 
adequate compensation? We know that the 
business of the world cannot be done solely on 
the united base of both gold and silver. To 
bring trade down to a metallic circulation, 
only, is to bring on a money panic that will 
ruin commercial prospects and paralyze the 
marts of trade in the civilized world. 

Jonathan Duncan, an eminent English writer 
on finance, says : " Panics, the offsprings of 
metallic money, have destroyed in England, 
since 181 6, as much property as would pay her 
public debt twice over." Is not this a vast loss 
to England's toiling sons? And still farther, 
Mr. Shuckers, in referring to the money panic 
of 1847, reveals the fact that the Bank of 
England cleared over nine hundred millions of 
dollars out of the financial wreck of this time. 

With the wealth of the people going into the 
hands of the money holder, when the people 
had both gold and silver to give them financial 
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98 Footsteps of Truth. 

aid, what must we expect when at least one-half 
of the metallic circulation is cut off, and gold, 
only, with enhanced value, can come to the 
relief of the laborer? 

With the easily perceived effects of a gold 
standard of value, enriching the money hold- 
ers of the world, and shrinking the value of 
property, we challenge the advocates of the 
gold basis to offer a reasonable excuse why 
humanity must thus suffer this financial wo. 
We cannot forbear quoting from a speech made 
by Hon. Harrison Kelley, of the Fourth Con- 
gressional District of Kansas, in the House of 
Representatives, March 18, 1890. Mr. Kelley, 
in speaking of the fruitless financial efforts of 
the returned Federal soldier, in consequence of 
unfriendly legislation against his interest, comes 
to the silver question in the following language, 
with reference to the soldier's cause : " He 
dives a little deeper into the mysteries of the 
legislation that has brought about these con- 
ditions, and he finds that, to accomplish it at 
one fell swoop, in 1873, silver was demone- 
tized ; he finds that to accomplish it the money 
power slipped a provision into a bill surrep- 
titiously and slyly, and that Congress passed 
it, a majority of those who voted for it not 
knowing it was in the bill ; and that the Pres- 
ident who approved it did not know it; that 
it was a swindle everybody knows, and every- 
body admits, yet seventeen years have passed 



The Demonetization of Silver. 99 

and the swindle remains on the statute books 
only half remedied." 

Think of it! At the time Mr. Kelley made 
this appeal for the right, seventeen years had 
rolled by with this acknowledged swindle only 
half righted and the nation suffering the pangs 
of financial death. Could there be a greater 
degree of financial folly perpetrated by the 
representatives of a free people? If everybody 
knew that it was a wrong, why this want of 
action in the long, oppressive years of the past? 
Why not all parties in the land rush to the 
rescue and place the American people on the 
vantage ground that would bring . prosperity 
and hope to the toiling class ? 

To show still farther that the demonetiza- 
tion of silver in this country was a wrong, we 
need but notice the fact that the United States 
was a silver-producing country. If we had no 
silver to coin, and depended on some foreign 
land for our supply of this metal, it would 
have been policy to cheapen the metal that we 
would sustain in money relation. But here 
in our land we had a supply of silver ore that 
opened up a resource of wealth that was the 
wonder of the civilized world. This develop- 
ment told the weary toiling sons that a to- 
morrow was soon to dawn that would make 
our land the home of ease and joy. The bright 
prospects of the future should have given the 
representatives of the government a watchful 



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care for the interest of American citizens ; but 
instead of protection to the resources of our 
land, we see a foreign bondholder in council 
with Congress, dictating a measure that the 
law of rectitude abhors, and making sugges- 
tions that were opposed to the future commer- 
cial progress of the United States. 

To prove that our Congress was the willing 
tool of foreign bondholders and the inatten- 
tive guardian of home interest, we turn to the 
Congressional Record of April 9, 1872, at page 
2032, and find the statement : " Ernest Seyd, 
of London, a distinguished writer and bullion- 
ist, who is now here, has given great attention 
to the subject of mint and coinage. After 
having examined the first draft of this bill (for 
the demonetization of silver) he made various 
sensible 'Suggestions which the committee 
adopted and embodied in the bill." 

With the fact before us that our land is rich 
in the possession of silver ore, we ask every 
American citizen if that ore must become a 
profitless production at the dictation of men 
who will be financially benefited by the demon- 
etization of our silver? Must home interest be 
sacrificed to build up a foreign interest ? Must 
the wealth of England and Europe be regarded 
in our Congress in preference to the wealth of 
America? 

In the demonetization of silverinthis country 
the bondholders of Europe had everything to 



The Demonetization of Silver, ioi 

gain, and the American citizen had much to 
lose. By this act, the American silver dollar 
in England was reduced in value at least ten 
per cent., compared with the 25.8 grains dollar 
of our American gold. Then, it is readily seen 
that the holders of our bonds in England were 
gaining a profit of ten per cent., which had 
been placed in their hands by our own folly in 
demonetizing our own silver. 



CHAPTER XII. 

THE DEMONETIZATION GAVE FOREIGN IN- 
TEREST CONTROL OVER AMERICAN PROS- 
PERITY. 

But let us look farther at the ascending of 
England's interest over American prosperity 
b}' the demonetization of silver. While we had 
crippled our own silver dollar to the amount of 
ten per cent., we turn our attention to England's 
possessions in India and find that silver is ex- 
clusively used in that land as a medium of 
exchange. Here, also, we find cheap labor pro- 
ducing wheat and cotton to supply the demands 
of the English market, and for the payment 
of this wheat and cotton, England, that coins 
the money of India, buys eighty cents worth of 
silver at its demonetized value, coins it, and 
then passes it for a dollar in exchange for 
India's commodities, making twenty per cent. 
off her own subjects, and also bringing this 
cheap labor of India into competition with 
labor in our own land. With such advantages 
over American interest, is it any wonder that 
the cotton planters of the South are compelled 
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The Result of Demonetization. 103 

to sell their production at ruinous prices, and 
the wheat fields of America will not pay for 
their cultivation? Farmers of America, pause 
in your daily toil and reflect that you are stand- 
ing to-day nearly on a level with the pauper- 
ized laborers of India. The power that seized 
the soil of India and placed over it the flag of 
England, with a demand for tribute from those 
unfortunate people, came to our shores with 
half a million dollars to perfect the means by 
which your toil would add to the accumulated 
wealth of the oppressors of mankind. If there 
is one act above another that has been passed 
by this government, at the suggestion of the 
interest gatherer, which should be reversd, it 
is the repeal of the demonetization act of 1873 ; 
and a full restoration of silver to its money 
position should be made. In the long contest 
for repairing of this financial wrong, we have 
witnessed an opposition on the part of the men 
who secured the discomfiture of silver that tells 
the tillers of the soil, that admonishes the toil- 
worn weary sons of labor, of the necessity of 
immediate relief from the grasp of Shylock. 

When the bondholders of the world unan- 
imously contend for a single system of gold 
specie circulation, it is evident that this system 
is against the welfare of labor. The money 
powers of all nations undoubtedly are favor- 
able to the plans that will give them the in- 
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104 Footsteps of Truth. 

If this were not true, you would not see the 
ceaseless vigilance of these men in their far- 
reaching schemes to control the financial actions 
of mankind. The selfish characteristics of cap- 
italists, educated for ages along the line of self- 
devotion, direct them on this financial field, and 
every measure that tells for their financial 
elevation finds an advocate in the grasping son 
of usury. 

In making this thrust at the selfish capital- 
ist that sees only the welfare of himself and his 
class, we would not be understood as brand- 
ing the lofty and generous actions of the legal 
possessors of money who reach out a philan- 
thropic hand to their race. To the men who 
have begun at the bottom of the ladder of effort, 
and by honor and honesty have worked thejr 
way to a high position, we would bid God 
speed in their onward endeavors. But the 
money power that overlooks the field of human- 
ity, and sees only the selfish means that will 
add to its possessions and pauperize the labor- 
ers of the world, w T e would denounce as an 
enemy of its race and a rebel against that high 
law that connects humanity to a common 
God. 

Outside of the disastrous effects produced 
by the demonetization of silver, which show 
that the friends of labor must be united in 
support of their cause, we see a united usury 
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The Result of Demonetization. 105 

secure a single gold standard, and has, all 
along, through the past years of this system of 
finance, struggled to continue the same. There 
has been no lagging nor indifference with these 
men, when the legal representatives of any 
people were to be secured for the accomplish- 
ment of their work. They have been found 
at their post, striking telling blows for self- 
interest; and in every department where labor 
is demanded they have been a unit in their 
struggles for success. 

This concerted action on their part to secure 
the control of the commercial exchange of the 
world reminds us that the hopes of a common 
humanity will be disregarded in their efforts. 
As we have seen them the foes of a common 
interest in the years of the past, we reason 
from this fact that their unity in regard to any 
measure tells that such a measure w r ill be 
against the prosperity of home, destructive to 
the interest of labor, and a detriment to the 
happiness of the world. 

Then, is it not true that, outside of the de- 
structive effects of the usurer's measures, we 
see the hand of warning to the sons of toil in 
the unity of Shylock's hosts ? While these men 
march in solid phalanx, determined on victory, 
the men whose hopes and interests are the 
opposite are an unorganized army, subject 
to defeat from their want of discipline and 
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106 Footsteps of Truth. 

If there is one thing above another that 
demands to be impressed upon the minds of 
the age, it is the fact that oppressed humanity 
must become a unit in action. The want of this 
has opened the flood-gates of wo upon the 
world. Every usurper on the ruins of human 
rights has reared his throne of power because 
the men who are wronged have been helpless 
for the want of assistance from their class. 
From the claimed divine right of royalty to 
the grasping monopolist we can trace a dis- 
position of mind that centers the available 
forces of their protection, while oppressed 
subjects and sorrow-stricken sons of poverty 
are bound in detachments to the triumphal car 
of the foe. Men who have seen the wrongs of 
their age have wept in solitude over the sor- 
rows of their race or for their efforts to free 
their fellow-man have trod the narrow way to 
the scaffold. 

It is said that the great secret of Napoleon's 
military success was the defect of his foes 
before they could unite their forces. So it was 
in the demonetization of silver in 1873. 
Following of Napoleon's plan of attack, the 
power represented in the bondholders of the 
Old World, aided by the money monopolists 
of America, stole a march on humanity, and 
in the hour of unexpected attack, at the time 
that labor was unorganized and unprepared to 
meet a foe, they planted the banner of victory 



The Result of Demonetization. 107 

on ruined homes ; they seized the advantage- 
ground that gave them success ; they found 
the listless sons of toil in a state of financial 
slavery, that is the regret of every reformer 
of his race. Then, how true it is that a needy 
humanity should be on its guard; that the 
laboring class of the world should be a unit in 
action, to meet every assault that adverse 
powers may make against them. If the con- 
tending forces against the Soldier of Corsica 
had met him on the battle-field, determined 
and united, he could not have changed the 
political features of the Old World, but would 
have met his Waterloo long before his name 
would have become the terror of Europe. 

So, in the great upheavals of society in the 
closing years of the nineteenth century, we 
must have a unity of purpose and a unity of 
action among the toiling, oppressed, and care- 
worn sons of labor, to meet the enemies of 
social elevation on a field of contest. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

THE CREDIT-STRENGTHENING ACT THE WORK 
OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE. 

In looking back over the history of our 
country, we cannot more fitly close our humble 
plea against the assault of the money power 
than quote from the inaugural address of the 
great apostle of Democracy, Thomas Jefferson, 
when he said : " What more is necessary to 
make us a happy and prosperous people? Still 
one thing more, fellow-citizens, — a wise and 
frugal government, which shall restrain men 
from injuring one another: shall leave them 
otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits 
of industry and improvements, and shall not 
take from the mouth of labor the bread it has 
earned. This is the sum of good government, 
and this closes the circle of our felicity. " 

If Mr. Jefferson was correct in his position 
of the means of happiness that will " close the 
circle of our own felicity/' then we now see a 
sad want of the means when the " exterminating 
havoc of the foreign bondholders can come to 
our doors and take from the mouth of labor 
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The Credit-Strengthening Act. 109 

the bread it has earned." Has not the wail of 
despair gone up from thousands of homes since 
foreign influence, with a half-million of dollars, 
has made it impossible for us " to regulate our 
own pursuits of industry and improvements? " 

Standing near the portal of the approaching 
twentieth century, the admonition of Mr. Jef- 
ferson, uttered at the dawn of the present cen- 
tury, sounds out on the ears of reasoning 
American citizens to guard them from the 
dangers of foreign intervention and guide them 
in the path that leads to complete happiness. 

Prior to the time of the discovery of Amer- 
ica by Columbus, we found no field where 
liberty could claim a home. The freedom of 
humanity had met its sad defeat on the numer- 
ous battle-fields of the then known world, by the 
force of arms in the hands of men who re- 
garded the common class as their fixed slaves. 
Nowhere could you turn to find a ray of cheer- 
ing light, shining on the darkened mind, that 
would give the race a bright to-morrow on the 
gloomy fields of Europe. But the imaginative 
mind of Columbus penetrated the mysteries 
of an unexplored ocean and opened up a land 
where the oppressed sons of labor could find a 
retreat from the malignant foe. After years of 
effort, scenes of sorrow, violations of the law 
of conscience and trespass upon the sanctity of 
home, in a land devoted to oppression's night, 
we see the human freighted Mayflower, of 



no Footsteps of Truth. 

1620, leaving those darkened shores, bearing 
the germ of an empire of human elevation to 
the snow-clad hills of an unexplored coast. 
Little did the oppressors of mankind think that 
the storm-tossed occupants of this frail vessel 
were laying the foundation of a political and 
moral structure on the winter shores of the 
New World that would be an asylum for a suf- 
fering race. 

" At Plymouth Rock they truths impart 
Of freedom, hope, and home, 
That proudly throbs our nation's heart 
For ages yet to come." 

Yes, when w r e speak of those men on New 
England's shores, reaching out a hand of pro- 
tection for the welfare of humanity, w^e tell 
an old story of philanthropic effort that will 
direct the struggling sons of liberty on every 
field of contest for their rights. When peace- 
ful homes, thriving cities, and a happy people 
were the fruits of this God-directed band, then 
the same power that drove the Mayflower to 
New England's shores sought the same object 
that made a liberty-loving people unhappy on 
the fields of Europe. Ambitious for the spoils 
of a free and prosperous people which had re- 
fused to yield up the sacred object of human 
rights, they resorted to military strength to 
make these people the obedient subjects of 
their will, but the friends of freedom met 



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the oppressors in military action and secured 
the triumph of their cause. As we look back 
on that fearful struggle that crowned the efforts 
of the sons of liberty and secured for a time to 
toiling humanity the fruits of their labor, we 
can appreciate the thoughts penned by one 
of the great poets of our age when he says : 

" Freedom, hand in hand with labor, 
Walketh strong and brave ; 
On the forehead of his neighbor 
No mau writeth slave ! " 

The hand of the oppression that seizes the 
disciples of liberty, that forges the fetters of 
slavery, has always been unfriendly to the in- 
terest of labor. The master that compels the 
servant to toil for his selfish objects and ends, 
stands at the bar of reason, the opponent of 
the servant's elevation and happiness. But 
freedom, with generous, soul-elevating, and 
God-sanctioned principles, rallies to the rescue 
of labor and the laboring class. While men, 
unfriendly to freedom and labor, have sought 
the subjugation of the inhabitants of these 
western shores, by the conquering force of 
military power, we find now another mode of 
action on their part to bring about the end for 
which the bullet was sent on its mission of 
death. Need we say that this engine of power 
in the hands of this class of men is the prej- 
udice wrought in the minds of the American 



ii2 Footsteps of Truth. 

citizen for the party organization to which he 
belongs? This far-reaching and subtle influ- 
ence, more potent than the bristling bayonet, 
more dangerous than the iron hail on the battle 
field, gains the object of the robbers of labor 
and enslaves a race by the ballot in the hands 
of the very same men that are enslaved. This 
mode of conquest is much easier than to use 
war's expensive appliances; and it tells with 
a better effect in the interest of humanity than 
any outward force that can be brought to bear 
upon the situation. The man that will cast 
the ballot against his happiness and the happi- 
ness of his fellow, must be degraded in his 
nature, and below the dignity of man. To 
work the ruin of the immortal nature is more 
to be dreaded than any physical suffering that 
has ever afflicted mankind. And to sink man 
to a position of suicidal action, to make him the 
agent of his own ruin and the ruin of his race, 
so that his particular party may gain ascend- 
ancy in the nation, is a deed that merits the con- 
demnation of the age. And when we see back 
of this folly of the American citizen the schem- 
ing power that will make the triumph of the 
party work for the robbery of a common 
humanity, we cannot cry out too loudly against 
that cunning and subtle force that is conquer T 
ing the world to-day. 

To know that [he ballot has been cast in this 
land at the suggestion of an unfriendly power 



The Credit-Strengthening Act. 113 

to American interest, we go back to a prior date 
from the demonetization of silver and find what 
has been boastingly called the " Credit- 
strengthening Act. On the thirteenth of 
March, 1868, Baron Rothschild gave his in- 
structions to August Belmont, chairman of the 
Democratic national committee, and also agent 
of the Rothschild's interest in America, that 
the Democratic party must be favorable to the 
payment of 5-20 currency bonds in coin, or the 
party would be defeated. The national con- 
vention of this party met in New York City on 
the fourth day of July, 1868, and nominated 
Horatio Seymour, on a platform that was in 
opposition to the coin payment of these cur- 
rency bonds. Before the campaign of that year 
closed we see the instruction of Rothschild 
verified. The New York World, an influential 
Democratic paper, undoubtedly under the in- 
fluence of Mr. Belmont, on the fifteenth of 
October, just on the eve of election, denounced 
Mr. Seymour as a candidate unqualified to fill 
the executive position of this nation. Going 
back to the demands of their foreign bond- 
holders, and then contemplating the obedience 
to these demands in the high political councils 
of the party, we are led to the conclusion that 
American interest was not the object of men 
high in the ranks of a great national organ- 
ization. But, turning our attention to the 
opposing candidate to Mr. Seymour, we dis- 
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cover a willingness to comply to the demand 
of Rothschild; and consequently that party 
triumphed, and the first act that was passed 
under the new administration was the passage 
of the Credit-strengthening Act. 

We pause here and ask the question : who 
was the most benefited by this act, American 
citizens or foreign bondholders? When the 
bondholders of Europe and also the same class 
in America accepted these bonds it was on the 
ground that currency would meet the obliga- 
tion that our government had assumed. It is 
true that we find the 10-40 bonds to the 
amount of $246,409,000 in 1866 were payable 
in gold and silver coin, but $1,500,000 of 5-20 
bonds could be paid in the same kind of money 
that, purchased them. This contract of the 
government was satisfactory to the money 
lender, or our nation would never have issued 
this amount of bonds on the terms accepted. 
And if the credit of this land was good enough 
to secure this loan on these terms in its dark 
hours of danger, was it not good enough to 
satisfy honest men in 1869, when the flag was 
protected from rebellion and the government 
was a reality in the great family of nations? 

Before the bondholders of the world made 
the urgent demand for the payment of these 
bonds in coin we find in a speech made by John 
Sherman, February twenty-seventh, 1867, the 
following declaration : " I say that equality and 



The Credit-Strengthening Act. 115 

justice are amply satisfied if we redeem these 
bonds at the end of five years in the same kind 
of money, of the same intrinsic value it bore 
at the time they were issued. Gentlemen may 
reason about this matter over and over again 
and they cannot come to any other conclusion ; 
at least that has been my conclusion, after the 
most careful consideration. Senators are 
sometimes in the habit, in order to defeat the 
argument of an antagonist, of saying that this 
is repudiation. Why, sir, every citizen of the 
United States has conformed his business to the 
legal-tender clause; he has collected and paid 
his debt accordingly." 

Had justice and principle changed since Mr. 
Sherman took this bold and honorable stand 
in 1867? 

Again, Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, in his cor- 
respondence from Washington, December 
thirteenth, 1867, said: " We never agreed to 
pay the 5-20's in gold; no man can find it in 
the bond, and I will never consent to have one 
payment for the bondholder and another for 
the people." 

Still farther, on this point of breaking the 
contract on the 5-20 bonds, O. P. Morton said : 
" We should do foul injustice to the. govern- 
ment and to the people of the United States 
after we have sold these bonds, on an average 
of not more than sixty cents on the dollar, now 



n6 Footsteps of Truth. 

to propose to make a new contract for the ben- 
efit of the bondholder. ,, 

We might show by other reliable authority 
that the credit-strengthening act was an un- 
called for move against the interest of this land, 
but we will forbear and will turn to the prac- 
tical workings of the movement against the in- 
terest of labor and American homes. 






CHAPTER XIV. 

THE EFFECT OF THIS ACT. 

A debt contracted by our government is a 
debt upon every home of the land; is an obli- 
gation that in honor binds every citizen of the 
Republic. Far be it from the loyal citizen to re- 
pudiate this obligation and invade the principles 
of honorable men. Exact justice on the part 
of the debtor is an emphatic command from 
Jehovah's eternal throne that admits of no com- 
promise to injustice, and when we turn to the 
creditor with an accepted relation to the debtor 
we find the same command sounding out on the 
existing world : Justice, untrammeled, and a 
regard for the rights of the debtor class. The 
same law of justice binds alike the debtor and 
the creditor on the field of human life. With 
this law universal in every department of hu- 
man existence we ask where was the justice 
on the part of the bondholder to demand a 
coin payment when the contract was for cur- 
rency? Where was the need of the Credit- 
strengthening Act under that rule of practice 
that originates with a God? At the bar of 

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Eternal Justice we arraign the producers and 
defenders of the Credit-strengthening Act ; and 
here justice can not fail to pronounce the ver- 
dict u guilty of high crime and misdemeanor/ ' 

While this act is found to be a violation of 
the law of justice we now turn to see the re- 
sults produced that w r ere in the minds of the 
bondholders of Europe when they planned the 
defeat of Mr. Seymour for the presidency, and 
brought about the work of its approval as the 
first act under the new administration. These 
5-20 bonds, that by the testimony of O. P. 
Morton had been sold on an average of sixty 
cents on the dollar, under the new impetus 
given them by this act, rose to a premium of 
over eighteen per cent., thereby wronging this 
land and enriching the men that demanded a 
new contract on these bonds. 

With this violation of justice and this de- 
mand on the resources of the people over the 
claims that the government owed the bond- 
holders of this country and Europe, we reach 
the conclusion that this act was unfriendly to 
the interest of the wealth-producing class of 
the United States and a bonus to the interest- 
gatherers of the world. 

We will illustrate this Credit-strengthening 
Act by an illustration in agricultural life. Sup- 
pose that some farmer in a business transac- 
tion would give his obligation for the delivery 
of a thousand bushels of oats some time in the 



The Effect of this Act. 119 

future. The creditor of this farmer accepts 
the obligation on the contract that the thou- 
sand bushels of oats will be an -equivalent for 
the debt. Time runs on, and this man comes to 
his debtor with the plea that in order that the 
said debtor may strengthen his credit he had 
better make a new contract and obligate him- 
self to pay to him a thousand bushels of wheat 
instead of the said oats. The farmer hesitates 
to comply with this request, but finally, on the 
plea that it was only a grain deal, a new note 
is given, calling for the thousand bushels of 
wheat. Is it not evident under these circum- 
stances, and with this plea of the creditor, the 
debtor would be committing an act of business 
folly that could find no support in the business 
world? A man who would thus throw aside 
his rights in trade would be regarded an in- 
competent agent to act his part in the business 
relations of life. And w r hat is true in individ- 
ual existence is equally true in the actions of 
nations. 

Then this boasted act that was to strengthen 
the credit of the nation is false. It reached 
not to the wants of national existence but only 
to the selfish wants of the bondholder, and 
gave him that which honor and honesty' con- 
demned. It was a robbery of the interest of 
labor, because the men who had their interests 
advanced live off of the wealth that labor pro- 
duces. It was a pledge to wrong-doing in the 



120 Footsteps of Truth. 

future and told that men, regardless of the 
spirit and genius of our free political institu- 
tions, could rear their throne of power on the 
ruin of the sons of toil. It was an outrage 
against humanity, ignoring, as it did, a contract 
upon which men depended in the future for 
the business transactions of life. It was as- 
suming a position that was false in every 
avenue of existence, namely : that a part is 
greater than the whole; and in this case the 
bondholder, who is but a small fraction com- 
pared with the great mass of humanity, must 
gain a position and consideration at a sacrifice 
to the multiplied thousands of human society. 
Standing on neutral grounds, where we are 
independent of, and uninfluenced by, all polit- 
ical parties, by all human devised organiza- 
tions, we will launch the thunderbolt of con- 
demnation against those systems and plans 
that work the ruin of humankind. 

We come back to the broad base of our pre- 
lude and say we can not afford to be a friend to 
any human system or plan that is not a friend 
to my home to my country and to mankind. 
Standing at this shrine of reason and laboring 
for the rights of humanity, we hesitate not in 
declaring the legality of this position that must 
meet the approval of a God of Justice and co- 
incide with the relations of immortality that 
unite the Creator and the creature to the eter- 
nal law of progress. As extensive as is the 



The Effect of this Act. 121 

range of God's wide empire, there you may 
find the principle involved in our prelude lead- 
ing every order of truth-loving intelligence to 
higher positions of enjoyment and to unending 
fields of happiness. What will develop results 
of elevation in the mortal's rounds of an earthly 
existence will reach out over the universal field 
of a future range of action, giving the same 
results to the free agent found on this range of 
effort. 

Then to commence a proper work of human 
elevation, we must be the friends of a system of 
action that reason sanctions, that truth recog- 
nizes, that a God of Justice approves. 

If we have said anything in these Footsteps 
of Truth that will wound the feelings of the 
wrong-actor who would thwart the eternal law 
of progress, to that man we have no apology to 
offer. Independent of every object and in- 
ducement that can be brought to bear upon 
human society, in opposition to truth, we say 
in the language of a sacrificed hero who fell 
during this century upon the soil of Cuba : 
" We never turn our back to an enemy and 
kneel only to our God." With this sentiment 
and feeling, we offer our tribute to a needy hu- 
manity, asking no favors of the ill-disposed 
opulent son of Mammon, disregarding the 
friendship of all oppressors of our race and 
spurning the good will of every class that 



122 Footsteps of Truth. 

wrecks the hopes of the world for a selfish 
motive. 

Individuals, political parties, bigoted 
churches and circumscribed selfish nations, 
that would lay in ruin the hopes of an intel- 
ligent existence, that would sever the ties of a 
common kindred, that would ignore the Father- 
hood of God and the brotherhood of man, we 
meet with determined opposition that knows no 
compromise, that knows no approval in any- 
round of human action. International law places 
all nations on the common field of labor to gain 
a common good ; the church organizations must 
d'ffuse a light that will illuminate the dark- 
ened pathways of time; the political parties 
need a respect for principles that will reach out 
over a field of effort where right can find pro- 
tection ; and the individual members of society 
must be a unit in the mass that will feel and 
act to relieve the woes of mankind. 

With these objects to be secured we ask for 
the attention of the public mind, and entrust 
our Footsteps of Truth in that mighty up- 
heaval that must soon revolutionize the sur- 
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